Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1858-04-29
For the Republican.

. For the Republican.
Responsibilities of school Teachers.
The rising generation receive in our
schools that training which will powerfully
affect their career through life. With the
employment then of Teachers, momentous
consequences are connected. The child
rem under their tuition, will soon become
active members of society; and the influ-
ences which surround them at school, will
! contribute greatly towards shaping their
conduct after they attain to manhood and
womanhood. ~
Let us contemplate the Teacher at his
vocation. Around him are Juveniles. to
the number of thirty or forty or more
Many of them, if instructed as they should
be, may attain to great celebrity as sehol-
ars. All of them may acquire powers.
mental or moral, which will qualify them
for eminent usefulness in the world
What wisdom and prudence are needed,
to properly guide these Juvenile minds?-
a wrong step, on the part of the Teach
er, may inaict upon them injury irrepara-
BILE; proper course ofinstrnction NAV be
instrumental in raising them to cminencc,
intellectually and morally.
Upon these youths highly responsible
duties will soon devolve. All of our oper-
ations, Agricultural, Mechanical, CONNER
cial. Educational, Governmental. and Re-
llglous, will in a few years pass into their
hands. From them our future Missiona-
rtes, Ministers. Teachers, Law-givers, and
Officers ofall kinds must be selected
Their conduct will determine whether these
privileges. civil and religious. which we
now enjoy, shall be lost or abridged, or
whether they shall be preserved and trans
mitted unimpaired to their posterity.-
Many OF eur benevolent institutions now
In operation, cannot he pushed forward to
successful completion, by the present act
ing part of community. If this work is
ever consummated, it must be done by those
who will hereafter come upon the stage.
The training Of the rising generation
then. is a noble and responsible calling
We can probably find no station which is
connected with more important consequen-
ces. Our School Teachers are in great
degree shaping the future operations Of So
ciety. The result of their labors will pow
erfully affect the characteristics and dest-
ny of our nation in coming time. A faith
fnl discharge of their duties will secure to
them an influence, which will produce bless
I'll consequences from age to age. When
they are in their graves, the instructions
which they have impaired. and the exam
pies which they have exhibited, will, direct
y or Indirectly, be diffusing civilization,
intelligence, refinement, and the blessings /
'f christianity. not only here. but in coun-
'ries far away. 2 i
Teachers. then, should feel the response
olities OF their station. They should qua!-
fy themselves in every respect for the en-
'loyment. Good scholarship alone, will
lot tit them for the work. They should be
'ble to explain the sciences in clear and
attractive manner. Still further, they
honld avoid all practices which are i'm
moral or vulgar. Children are strongly 4
Inclined to consider their Teachers as mod
is, hence the examples of these Teachers
n language, manners. morals, and every
hing else. should be such as proper for i'm
tation- w.
G9- The Evansville Enquirer has rath- l
a poor opinion of rcvivals. 1t says: L
Revivals are periodical ebullitions,
Thich arc as natural III the religious world