| Show TIE TEACHER Let every teacher keep in mind the dignity i dig-nity of his work and exalt bIs calling It produce tho richest and most lasting fruits human lives sweetened and enlightened enlight-ened When PESTALOZZI returned from Paris his friends eagerly asked him i bo had seen BONAPAUTE No he replied I but BOXAIARTE had not seen me Much did they wonder at the audacity which made this usually modest teacher couple his name with that of the conqueror of Europe But PESTALOZZI knew the greatness great-ness of his work When Prussia lay humbled hum-bled and conquered at Jean Vox STEIN i convinced the nation that only by tho slow I process of education could she recover bell place Learners were sent to PSSTALOZZI ideas innoculated the German system and in i the fullness of time Jena was avenged at Sedan and PESTALOZZI proved a greater than BONAPARTE When AGASSIZ the groat man of science whom Switzerland gave to I America va laid in his tomb a great Alpine 1 Al-pine boulder was placed over him with this single inscription I Louis AGASSIZ Teacher1 that being the phase of lifo which I he felt to be the greatest Remember the words of HosiCE MANJT tohis fellow teachers i teach-ers of Massachusetts r Let mo ask I whether amid all the spectacles which earth presents there is one fairer to the sight than that of a young man just fresh from the Creators hands with the unspent energies of a coming eternity wrapped up in his being surveying and recounting in the solitude of his closet and the darkness of midnight the mighty gifts with which he I has been endowed and the magnificent career of useful blessedness which is open before him and resolving with ono allcou centratlng allhallowing vow that he will live true to the noblest capacity of his being and in obedience to the highest law of naturel Let every teacher secular and Sunday school make such e vow and enter on the work with reverence and gcdl fe but also with enthusiasm and f devotion and in a spirit of eager selfsacri fice |
