The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1857-11-12
What Is Written upon the Mind is
Never Erased.

Never Erased.
There'is much in the following suggestions of
Bishop Potter of New York, as profitable for
the meditation of parents as OF teachers, to
whom as a class, they were specially addressed.
We quote from an address delivered before the
State NormalS School at Albany:
The teacher cannot impart TO Others what he
does not possess himself. If he be coarse and
cownsh, he will not do much to refine and hu
mamie his pupils. If he be void of feeling and
sentiment dead to the beauties of nature and
to the beauties Of thought and language, there
will be nothing suggestive in his glances at ma
ture and life no repetition of beautiful sto-
res or Of beautiful scraps of simple poetry,
to kindle the feeling and imagination Of his
pupils, and to teach them to recognize and ad
| mire what is admirable in sentiment and lam
guage.
! Speaking, then, of things which are over and
above the elementary instruction you have to
impart would say TO you emphatically, that
| just in proportion as you improve yourselves in
! all the respects to which have now referred, in
just such proportion will you contribute to the
improvement Ot your pupils, OF all the daily
| lessons you set b fore them, is the presence
| Of d beautiful charac,er-cilaracter in the pa
! r-nL, cha rdeter III The teacheT-whieh works up
on the young. drawing them into resemblance
% Hsrlf.and doing more to improve their minds,
their hearts, and their manners, than can be el-
| t-cted by the most dlligeut instruction in mere
| book knowledge.
TAX. the children and youth who are often
collected together in rural school, ana not
one OF whom, perhaps, has ever enjoyed the
privilege OF tamlilar comm InICatiOu with
| person of real rttinamrnt and cultivation; and
what wonder it must be to them, and what
a blessing, to find themselves daily looking up
on, listening to, conversng with teacher who
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wonderful charm, from the gentleness and
dignity of his or her manners the elevation
Of his sentiments; the sweetness and gravi
of his speech: and the wide range f his
thoughts
( They behold human character in a more en-
gaging form than ever before and while they
admire, they learn TO Initiate. They perceive
that there is something more excellent than their
coarse manners and sloveniv speech /; and they
b-com- chastened and refined under the daily
example, almost without thinking of it. The
teacher reasons win clution and discrimna-
tIon in heir presence kiudl-s into admIra ton
OF some lofty trait of virtue or expresses hor-
ror at some instance OF meanness, cruelty, or
d-praclty; or EXERCISES patience and tenderness
toward some lnirm and waywarl pupil or
points out something exquiSitrly beautiful in
thought and sentiment aud character and as
they look on aud listen, they beg in to feel more
deeply what is noble and what is m AN they
, b-gn to perceive what it is TO reason accu
rdtely. ..-...
~ E"dI IdC!e' au' oemFdnof Oh tle teacHer %
'on -. VI soou'itEs anu VISION, aho
"1e s'Su 70 peeohi uisclp'eS 'n'F inlei
a.i' .iot d. hatut' 'SnVs s'ow' Is put
kind OF Injection and TRANSMISSION from the one
superior character than they could acquire from
Cne greatest amount of mere cold and barren
lessons. Accurate and vigorous Instruction
'ues+ must oi course Oe--wItAolt tnat II is
mere 'o'ly ana I'M hPeruhence 10 pretend 10 thi
nlShet Influences OF whlch nave been speaking.
o1t 'ile hlSner tue culture oI lle teacher, th'
I"e''e' I1 VIII h"u" HpW " Hdhe IHaU lslFuC-
''oh p'easaht hnl effective ana now TO tnrow
over ~ anu d'ou'l IL Dcdu'lu' dud touchlh5 les
SONS tor tI5 hvar', IN fancy ana Tue taste.
. AnI IL we conceIye mat n that rustic school,
" ""'Ih nave 'ele'IV"' lh''e may 'e s"H@
you'"'W neaiI pregnant WIN ceIrstlaI nra, some
"'ha VIZ" s'uuhoet'hS powers ou'y heeoInS 10
oe Hs"'y toucue', we can easily see thdt
! ''1"h"t,u' seh'a' 'edCuet "oulu oe t'ie o"e u
Coz, "' !" su'h sP',iyah" u 'edC" '''e "a Ic's7
/ VI - 'ae"tL,s' "nne mere HheelhH'GaI 1hsA
mister Woqu very IA"'y sInPeiy H. ana seal II
up w e'eI'asI'ns 'otpoF' hau we c"I'd OF ou'
o"r o"r ~ 'oii''S W 'te t1'' Vi 'edIl7l' nov
80 ~ ~ So" go no ''io 'Iu~"e' Nh'S"'
= u To'"pe'e"' co' so'ne'HH9 'ho'e ''"h mere
u"'' 'UuunG VI Neioai o'i'',s-"o" niueh we
t'i ,Iat "7 ''i'S nl,I -
n'cliNs Soou' h'"h--''a' ne nl'Sh' Know now 70
t ass.9t ane CouGePllUis oL us puPll-'nat ne ne
"h'suI oe ao'e " ca'i a''eh'ton 10 oeauVlu
no4S"t, ot osautl9i seehe III nature ana Sd I'
. hllu'e ihe leellng anu Imagination 10 wake ~
o '"G sout VI 'nal you"s "ISC'P'e
9 Is '"tousu the manners more tlan III al
mos any olneF vagina We continually impress
Y dnn Ihhuelce, ia'o[9o'y or uhtaVofan,y' thos'
5 VINO are Iy, ABOUT US we cannot aiways oe speak
g Ins' we caI"o' al"ays Dc enSfseI III EXPIRES
a sive ac'loh' Dul even Wheh we are SiiFh'--'yef
t Wneh We are noI III se'ion there Is somrthIns
- III "uL a'' anu manner W"'Ch expresses WHAT'S
@ hani,,n,,t mr. ,,n,t j. l.,,rs., AMI h'.r.%
t oeI'sh'n{' OF "aa' IS coarse anu h'rsl' .4-,
A. am niue d'FAli LAat great many peoph
I ~ ''l, COUNT! are IatnTF prom 10 uh 'rr"""'
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