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Show Encourage The Teacher Our schools and the teachers who instruct the children of the nation are becoming more and more vital to our lives. In the future it will be necessary for children to go to school many more years than they do now, since the youth of tomorrow will be forced to learn the fundamentals of trades, or business in school. It is being recognized as an economic factor that the young and old will not be used as much in the work of the world, therefore children will stay in school more years than at present. With this thought in mind it is well to give credit to the teaching profession. To them will be trusted, more and more, the training of the young people of the land. It is in this period of a young person's life that there is great need for training. The young people are being weaned away from the home, and they are particularly susceptible to other influences. It still remains true, as Cardinal Henry Newman said many years ago, "Many an excellent man is tempted to forget that the best offering he can make his children is himself " But it is equally true that, with the child spending the best part of his or her waking hours in the classroom, far-seeing parents will not overlook the importance of keeping keep-ing the teacher inspired by some form of recognition for her good work. Let it not be forgotten that her own morale in these days often is subjected not only to the usual ' oiiies of leading you down the thorny path of lea 1 -rung but the cross-strain of added responsibilities and low salanes. |