Show THE JOY OF TEACHING if an agassiz finds find pleasure in digging among fossils in order that he be may interpret the great story of prehistoric life if a john thoreau by waldon pond is delighted with his studies of bugs and beetles if a jolin john burroughs on his little patch of ground in the valley of the mohawk glories in his life among the birds and trees if a luther burbank is enraptured with his work of trans forming forni ing a worthless desert cactus into an edible fruit or in producing a sweeter rose or fairer lily if these and other workers whose names are legion revel in the love of their work then by what term shall we designate the joy that should be the teachers who works not with mere fossils nor with bugs or beetles nor with birds bees or flowers but with the child who is at once the most complex the most plastic the most beautiful of all gods creati creation on yes its a wonderful thing to be a teacher its a great thing to teach school frank W in the utah educational review |