Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1858-06-30
VOL. 4.---N0. "A.

4 can teach SCHOOL, School-kcepers are giving
place to school-tedchers-the profession is ta-
| king rank among the highest and tho most
learned professions and there is no danger of
the Teachers education being too extensive,
provided that it is thorough.
The True Teacher does not need a college
diploma, setting forth that he has gone over
a certain routine of studies, through which his
abilities would never allow him TO 60, and very
deeply into which he never has peeped; but
he does need to bear on his manly brow tho
mark of intellect enstamped, and intellect i'm
proved and cultivated. If he has enjoyed the
advantages OF public education, SO much
the better, if those advantages have been inn
proved. But he must be educated, in the true
sense of the word, just as much if he sports
college honors to his name as if he does not.
And the education of experience will be Of
most service, for experience is the school
where wisdom learned.
Again, did time permit, might speak of
self-refiance. The True Teacher feels that
what has been done once, can be done again
that whatever any one else has done, he can
do in like circumstances. He has, then, a
moderate share of what is vulgarly called SELF.
cOnceit. / call it self-relidnce. He feels that
he is a man, and not a mere machine-he has
will of his own, and win not be dictated to by
those who know nothing of the s:joy of grief"
Of the teachers lot. though be is ever ready
and willing to receive counsel and instruction
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great work in which he is engaged.
Nor have / said anything directly of apfness
TO teach. 1t will be readily inferred, however,
from the qualifications specified, that would
have the instructor of the young sSapt to
teach.'' Indeed the characteristics named in
clude this. 1t is not q sssimple element'' in
the character of the teacher, but compound
of all that might be named, and perfected only
by long and varied experience. The True
Teacher is ssapt to teach" He can teach his
pupils all he knows himself, if any body else
can teach them any thing, and-what may be
called the educational parddor'-sometimes
more than he himself knows.
Such, then, being the characteristics of the
True Teacher, surely an importance and Dig
nifty attached to his office. The teachers
calling is not to be lightly esteemed. 1t is
great, glorious calling, second to none on
earth. How often do We find young men par
ticularly, making school-teaching but a step
stone to something in their estimation higher,
as if there were something higher on the earth.
The True Teacher is man to be respected,
nay, honOred in his community. And why not 2
Is not his influence greater than the influence
of any other Is not his work nobler and q
more laborious work? His life is spent in
s:doing good,'' in endeavors to make himself
and others useful, honored, beloved, and hap
py. He has right 10 respect and esteem and
honor, and-what he rarely receiyes-a just
recompense for his labors; for he aims high,
vine right, TO these things, so he expects them.
And above all, he expects his instructions to
be needed, and good results to grow out of
them and if disappointed of this, whatever
encouragements may be denied him, none can
take away his right to weep over his disap-
pointments and the frailty OF man. es
The True Teacher lives not for the present
only. He lives for the future. He points his
pupils on and up, encouraging them by his
own bright example. He looks away ahead,
to the time when the little boys and girls a.
round him have become men and women, and
the play ground has been exchanged for the
great arena of sterner life; when the spelling
book has given place to the ledger or the tones
of law or divinity, the muilen-stalk to the sol
diers gun. and the sports of childhood to the
great battle of life. And as his minds eye
scans the dim vistas of the future, he sees
them honored and beloved, educated and use
full, virtuous and happy. He looks only atthe
bright side. He sees them in the different
pursuits of life some in humble retirement,
spreading peace and happiness around them,
and always strewIng roses in their pathway for
others. He sees others in public life, sway
ing nations by a word, causing unjust judges
to tremble at their expositions of Justice, and
the throne Of tyrants to totter at their bid
dings, while justice and cruelty cowe- in very
shame beneath their rebukes, and truth and
virtue rejoice in the sunshine of their smiles.
Some he sees in their abundance administer
ing to the poor-teedlng the hungry and cloth
ing the naked, and spreading the Word OF
Lille throughout the world. He sees others
spending their lives, because all they have to
spend, in 'sdoing goods" some physicians.
some lawyers and statesmen of distinction and
merits some judges, governors, congressman,
while one stands at the head of government,
with one by his side that would hardly be re-
eognized as the romping bright-eyed girl of
the hillside school. Others he sees, like him
self, instructors of the young; some again,
heralds of the Cross, ambassadors from God
to man; and with thrill of holy pride and
pleasure indefinable, he cries, ssthese were my
pupils 20 He labors not for gold he tolls by
day and racks his brain by night not for any
marble monument to his fame but, like the
Spartan mother, he can point significantly to
liring monuments of his faithfulness, with the
Spartan expression-ssthese are my Jewels.
Fun AND PovERTY.-Poverty runs strongly
! to fun. A man is never SO full of jokes as
when he is reduced to one shirt and two pota-
toes. Wealth is taciturn and fretful. Stock
brokers wonld sooner indulge in hearty