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Show PROBLEM OF THE PARENT. Most Important With Which Teachers Have to Deal. If you havo never taught school, you probably Imagine that the most Important Impor-tant probloms In education consist In the solution ot such questions as tho relation of the state to the schools, the secularization of tho schools and thu application of correct principles In tho Instruction to the development of the child, says H. M. Easter In Mc-Clure's. Mc-Clure's. I did onco. Then I began to teach. At tho end of a year I knew that tho problem, tho all-pervading, all-overshadowing problem, was the parent. Weekly, sometimes daily, was my Ingenuity taxed to Its utmost to meet, and if possible vanquish, tho indifferent in-different pnrent, the Inconsiderate parent, the meddlesome parent, the fond parent, the proud parent, the troublesome parent, tho Irate parent, tho Ignorant parent and the enllght-, oned parent, but in the end the parent prevailed. |