| Show v A STRIKING CONTRAST school teachers in this country often complain of the low salaries they receive for services which should command very liberal they should compare prim prices with the 66 shabby genteel schoolmasters school masters of old E england 11 an ali illustration of their miserable condition is afforded by the case of a yorkshire vicars experience he ad verti zed for a village schoolteacher school teacher off offering eTing the munificent salary of per annum ou ouy of which the teacher was to pay 10 a year for house rent the schoolmaster school master was required to be a 61 certified student to oe be recommended by four responsible persons two of them clergymen and to be able to play on the harmonium strange to say the vicar received numerous applications for the place which shows not only that education does not command high prices in th tb eold country but that there is a plethora ef f qualified school teachers there ready to accept positions where the wages are down almost to a starvation standard little more for a year than certified teachers here demand for a month we do not cite this example with a yle view w to the depreciation of the value of school teachers in this part of the world for we have always advocated adequate wages to every worker we believe that to be both right and expedient atlis in our opinion for the welfare of society as well as ifor the good of the in individual there can be no general dorler ail ana true prosperity where the wage worker Is poorly or unfairly paid and a good teacher is almost invaluable but a contrast of ones condition wl with th that of others who are in inobe the same profession or fiade but whose earnings are so much less and who are thankful for that which he be would spurn with disdain and indignation is sometimes better for the individual than comparison with the stratus status of the high salaried and wealthy which brings discontent and makes present tasks and duties a burden difficult to be borne honesty with contentment is great gain so an said an abos apostle and philosopher it is good sense be content with suco suca things as ye have is sage advice it does not preclude honorable ambition nor shut out laudable effort to better ones condition but it comprehends the enjoyment of et that which is in hand and the holding on to the substance instead of vainly pursuing a shadow this does not apply to school teach ers era any more than to others it is go good 2 mental food for all to masticate |
