| Show TEACHER MUST BE HUMAN By DR ESTHER L. L RICHARDS Johns John University A child chiM is the severest critic nn and no child is going to open up to a B teacher who is mechanical in her human contacts who has allowed years ear of struggle to make her bitter cynical and pessimistic As ups grown-ups we are apt to stoop to childhood trying to get down downto to its level lerel j to make childhood adapt its ways of thinking to ours to tomake tomake tomake make it see as we see and reason as we fool ourselves into thinking that we do It is only through the study of individual childhood that adults can learn to understand the of childhood in general We Ye are forever forever for lor ever talking about school and home as the two great bel behavior laboratories of childhood and yet et no business organization could run on such desultory desultory tory contacts as exist exit between these two great institutions of our social system I can find no cau cause c to blame classroom teachers for their failure lailure to get at the difficulties of individual children Crowded classrooms in inadequate inadequate inn in- in n adequate academic facilities supervisors who insist upon padding promotion promotion promotion pro pro- motion lists to make better statistical showings are ore circumstances over which classroom teachers have no control |
