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Show TEACHING IS POORLY PAID Man Who Elects to Teach Need Never Expect More Than Living Allowance. Pedagogy la advancing lo the front among professional activities. As at no previous time. It Is studied In col leges and universities, and Is more and more enlisting the finest of their graduates. Tear hlng Is slenderly paid. The man who elects to teach, whether In a preparatory school or a university, univer-sity, need never anticipate anything beyond a mere living allowance. For this reason, when the profession Is chosen we nmy take It for granted that the choice was from love. Parents Pa-rents CLnnot he expected to be unfair to children. This would be extremely censurable. On the other hand, they should not be unfair to the teacher, their aim being to work In harmony with him. ' Although I have used the masculine pronoun here I do not forget that the vast .majority of teachers are women. This being said, Is it not apparent that the mother sex Is, on the whole, more successful In dealing with young peo pie than the father sex? We rarely hear stories or dissatisfaction with the tear her s personality when nlie Is a plrl only a few years out of college, or a woman who h is her n consecrating consecrat-ing the most fruitful and beiiutiful )ars of her life to training girls and beys. Woman's Home Companion. |