Show recollections of a western schoolmaster from the columbian reader staid and sober did you ever teach the young idea havko how to shoot was it ever your dally daily task to sit enthroned on the pedagogues gues tripod with a f ferule rule for a sceptre tre e and a birch rod at your feet as the m means eans of en enforcing forcin 9 obedience to your commands was it ever your privilege to look round upon the young faces facea of a half hun bun dred subjects and like alexander selkirk exclaim at least mentally 1 I am monarch of all I 1 curves survell sur ves if you have ever enjoyed these privileges you are to some extent pre prepared to read and appreciate my recollections 5 1 the teach teachers erla task is difficult to perform 11 he e is is expected to ingratiate himself into the special favor and affections of his students anai and at the same time to stand preeminent pre eminent before school trustees parents neighbors friends and foes the the world abw the flesh and the devil as a perfect para paragon aon in manners a model in morals and a solomon in in wisdom the royal roval fiat the supreme va vox X pu puli has gone forth into all the world thai he must keep order in his school and it ia further commanded th that at he must not neglect the little ones nor show any partiality afert y mrs wi wiggins 9 gins knows exactly what order is she was once a student herself p when a little girl and therefore stands prepared to say when a teacher dodor does not keep order she has her standard of ordet order and ie requires quires the instructor of her children to come richt right I 1 up to it amri mrs Fl eggins too is is a lh lady dy 0 of close discerni discernment she attend I 1 ed school one quartering quarter qu in buncombe north carolina and feels entirely competent to know and by no means backward to say what is meant by order she has her standard but from the task of showing what it is good lord deliver us 5 and then theres mr sapiens s a prominent subscriber to the school J and a very influential man he will tell you yon that he always subscribes two soho scholars lars that he be labored four days in building the schoolhouse school house and coil contributed tri buted seventy five cents towards buying the nails yes mr sapiens must be consulted he knows a great many things and among others precisely how a school ought 0 to be managed he says says that order is heavens first law 5 and that thai mr pedagogue must not make A it the last item in his code and mr windy feels interested in the cause of education of the rising generation zene ration ile he says that he in much larnin and never beached a school but then he has clear and and distinct notions of the duties of a teacher old grandmother grub grab mr windas mo ther in law minds mighty well how bow the old minister used to do when she was i a gal how he beached the children and s sung un old hundred bufa she sagely suggests that there are no such stich men edw no w 6 a da daya ys all these and a score of other persons sit in in judgment daily on mr pedagogues gues qualifications mental and moral and especially biall y do they descant on his abilities to govern a school his students tp too have their view of pro briety eriety if they number fifty then there are fifty aty minds fifty different judges judg s of mr pedagogues gues f aes ues abilities fifty different standards by which he is 8 tried and fifty different tribunals before which he must answer a for all his deeds in school now each of these fifty students it may be there are two or three exceptions has three objects in view all of which he to accomplish at school 1 he wishes to prove himself to be the most promising boy in the neighborhood I 1 apo and that he has the natural ability no one dare doubt for father and mother have both several times prece ived the remarkable talents of their young hopeful and grandmother has not hesitated to confirm their opinions 2 he wishes to learn as little as possible for it is too much tro trouble a ble for him to study 3 he wishes to give the teacher as much trouble as possible and he manifests this last las wish and purpose of his heart by his wayward conduct and disobedient course now mr pedagogue has enough to do ile he has work enough for both his hands and all his heart let him lay all other tasks asi aside defor for this will f fully ally occupy I 1 his time it will call for all his hia skill and demand his utmost patience I 1 the teacher to be successful beust make teaching the business of his life it must be his vocation he must love to teach he must not take it up because he can not find something more lucrative to do nor I 1 must the love of ease influence his choice no profession pro fessio n imposes more labor now must he se seek ek toll to please everybody to do his duty must be his hia highest aim i |