Show fi Big Bid Ura h. h Occasionally there are Chapel Talks for Teachers chapel talks given giver at the University iv which the teacher ought to hear as well as the student Such a a talk talk- was given a fortnight ago by Mr Frank Y Taylor It might well have been heard also by every normal student in the tion and set them to thinking The The Gist Gist How a boy or a girl a J fo of the Truth young man or a young woman is stimulated brightened and vivified vi by bya a passing word of encouragement by a slight expression of appreciation tion by a smile of kindliness ness on the part o of an el elder ler lerp p pr person r o and how such acts often influence e t tH the whole Ch character l. l i f and i dj conduct o du t of of a ayoung young young n man man man- manor or orN N y l rit y s the gi gist gis lof of 1 Mr r. r rr Taylors s 's l JL i And And it it i truth so An Un- Un It remains an unsolved an-unsolved unsolved pr b- b 1 solved Problem lem to the ordinary pupil and student how it is that a teacher either can never have learned this truth or can carl have entirely it or can knowingly ignore it And while it is common for pupils and students to wonder why some teachers instructors or professors are are often so reserved from offering enco encouragement r showing appreciation a and d dis displaying playing a h interest heart in the individual under him yet there is another r problem in the fact that so many of those very very- students upon b becoming coming teachers are themselves s. s the of the same complaints complaints complaints com com- plaints by a younger g-en g generation ration of students stu stu- dents or pupils under them A The v view ew is held by y some some Sad Q e f Mistake t that h at a stu students student's d' d ent s a a student and wi will l work york or wont won't work just ac according cording t to his his ps psychological make This is one ne of the saddest addest errors in the educational nal world akin to that old proverbial proverbial pro pro- lie about abolt a boys boy's a boy and must be expected to sow a certain amount of wild oats But this old error must give way eventually to the dawning truth that accomplishment in general depends upon proper incentive and inspiration which ar are largely to be had iri ri the character of ofa of-a a teacher Accordingly when a teacher has the the rep reputation tation of failing a. a good many stu- stu dents each year it is not a reflection upon the students tu but upon the teacher It would be a surprise to many to kno know know- v been s con how man many y students have almost sum by the hy the fever o of discouragement duto due du to the attitude of the teacher teacher students students too who who after afterward ard have distinguished themselves above their fellows Th There re is is a certain ertain professor in the ii sti- sti who thinks that the the tea teacher her has b but but but- t little f ari Vei the character character an if ariy any y power b over er cond conduct d' d dof of his students and that eVen i if M k r he lie had that power it would be too great greata f a responsibility to exercise i it That very I II j I professor is the cause of most remarkable I f changes in his students and that it seems without his knowing it and we believe f that if this power over I his stu students d. d were i aggressive instead of passive that it would woul L s soon distinguish him far above the position position t tion he now holds in the hearts of his lis st students stu- stu I I dents and would inde indefinitely nit ly increase his power for good over his students students' 1 but It is after all but the old oldan oldan an Old story th that at c character I is IS t the I le es es Story 1 sence of the great teacher And this has been repeated a go good d deal of late years A series of addresses was deli delivered before 1 the University Normal Society last year years j s by note noted Utah educators In every case each speaker emphasized the view that I II character is the essence of the great grent teacher teach- teach I er A teacher however who himself is isa I t Ia I a man of f but mediocre character can never appreciate this view |