The daily comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1850-1856, 1854-03-31


Tar ScuooLn AsTER-HIs Dur1r'
AND InrLUENcE. The power wieldel
by = Schoolmaster is more onercuI
than that exercise by many Of III
potentates Of tho earth. In his hands
more than in my others, Is placed the
mighty Future, for Is tho child il cul.
tivated by him 80 shall the next
generation flourish or decay. What
varied attributes the Schoolmastsl
should possess to fulfil with satis6ac.
ton his duties !; he should be admira.
BILE in temper, gentle in speech, quick
in perception Of character, and pro
foundly learned not only in al sci
ences, but in the study Of mankind.
His life should be 50 irreproachsble
in all things that he should serve
the brightest model to his pupils.
He should make his School-room a
place, not where words are learned
by rote, but where the mind is ex.
!panded by the only legitimate means
the cultivation oftiought. He should
be very true to Nature, and very
just to Intellect. He should be very
careful that the mind of the pupil
should never be sought to be strength
ened at tie expense Of the body, for
if the body becomes sick the mind,
or thought. will inevitably become
diseased likewise.
As individuals differ in organiza-
ton, 50 the capability of acquiring
knowledge is possessed by each in
smaller or greater degree. The les
son that is easy to one sorely taxes
the powers Of another to acquire.
Learning should never be made bur-
deusome, therefore, the pupil should
be studied by the schoolmaster as
much as the book is by the scholar.
Everything that is treat and glori-
GUS in human nature should be cul-
tivated : everything that is mean
and contemplate should be eschewed.
Love and reverence appertain to the
former; hate and fear to the latter.
The Schoo]master should there
fore ever treat the child with gen.
tleness and kindness, appealing con-
stantly to its reasoning faculties, SO
that he may appear the very per-
sonifcation of wisdom; he should new
er, with vulgar threats, or coward
blows, crush the spirit of the child, |
and thereby awaken in its breast
craven fears and bitter feelings of
hatred. How sad if the child, who
came to him full of innocence and
purity, should leave him filed with
ready to prey upon the
world.
The duties of Schoolmaster are
sminently cheering. The chief aim
# existence, Progress, can be ever
before his eyes; the cause of Truth
Justice and Morality, can constantly
'e pleaded by him, and never in
'ain, for childhood has all these at.
ributes instructive in the heart; and
hus can he impress upon all under
lis influence the great lesson of So
ial duty, to leave the world better
nd fairer than they found it.
What a beautiful world this might
low be if the Schoolmaster, in all
ges, had been true to his vocation.
The mind of the Statesman, the l
the Divine, the Physi-
ian, the Merchant, toe Lawyer, the
'oet and the Philosopher, is formed
nd directed by him. To form the
lind Alright the grand truth must
yer be present to the Schoslmaster
nat Nature and Intellect are God Y
pom earth. Why is it that we have
} few original minds in the world,
nd that thousands, are still walking
l the beaten and WORKOUT track ? I
because the intellect is not properly
ultivated. Why is that disease and $
rime. aud Premature death are still g
fe among us? Because the intellect l
not properly cultivated. Why is it :
lat our laws seek more to destroy the
riminal than the crime Because
lie intellect is not properly cultivated.
ct but the Schoolmaster, everywhere ;;
yer the world, whether at home or =
,oad, be true to his high calling, and 7
Re Future will be true to Humanity 9
I'd Progress. 7