The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1875-02-20
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the highest moment.
Those committed to his care are the
young and inexperienced, and, consequent
ly, the most dociie and susceptible. The
influences that are brought TO bear upon
the child are likely to be permanent, aud
win add materially in forming his or her
future character and usefulness. The
teacher is laying the foundation Tor the
development of the moral, physical and
intellectual welfare ofthe pupil. He should
be careful to teach by practice and prccept
the beauty Of etiquette. and the Importance
Of morality, and see that the moral law is
strictly adhered TO-
The advancement Of the pupil will de-
pend upon the teacher, the methods en-
plowed in imparting knowledge, in secur-
ing attention, and in preserving good order.
"0rder" is said to be heavens first law,
and experience as teacher has taught me
that it Is an indispensable agent in the
school-room; and where it does not pre-
vail, success is impossible
Emulation in school is grand means
for the advancement of the pupil, and for
securing good order every teacher should
50 arrange the affairs of the sehool-room
that an animated interest be manifested
by the pupils in their studies; and as an
auxiliary the cooperation of the patrons
should be secured
The teacher should be pleasant and dill
igent, maintain the dignity Of his profess
sion, have a few wholesome rules and teach
the pupils that to disobey is crime.
Love should be main element in the
school-room, and the teacher should en-
deayor to secure the confidence and re-
spect of all the pupils, in order that his
influence over them may be increased.
Gaining tho esteem Of the papils by
proper discipline is so important that with
out it no school can be successfully man
aged, and the teacher who fails in this,
fails in an essential part of his work
The vocation of the teacher is work
too important to be trihed with. There
are many vacations in life in which
neglect Of duty, or wrong principle, would
result in but nominal loss; but teaching
is a work Of important character; the i'm
mortal minds Of the children of our land
are to be fashioned, each to perform some
part in supporting the pillows Of Society,
the Church, and the State, when they who
now sustain them shall have passsd from
the stage of human action.
The men and women of 1900 are the
boys and girls Of to-day, and the elements
which are to cause them to shine forth
before the world must be prepared now,
and to whose lot does il fall, more, than to
the lot of the teacher? 1t is his duty to
train his pupils in such way, that they
will become good men and women, and, in
after years, shining lights in society.
The object of all teachers should be to
educate the moral nature, and to deyelope
the intellectual powers in their efforts to
manufacture human character; they should
initiate as far as possible, the Divine gov
ernment.
Children are problem of which the fu-
ture history of the world will be a solu-
ton. A story is related of celebrated
Queen who once invited her royal guests
to witness her jewels, and conducting them
to vast gathering of children, she re-
marked "fhese are my jewels; these are
the gems Of my kingdom, and hope of my
realm.
A German schoolmaster once said,
whenever | enter my sehool-room re-
move my hat, and bow with reverence, for
there l meet the future dignitaries of my
country In the child exists the elements
Of the adult man,--it is the index to the
folio of mankind.
"Tell me" says Burk, "what are the
prevailing principles of your young men,
and l viii tell you what is to be the char
acter of the next generation" There are
said to be exceptions to every general rule,
and so there may be to this, but if so, they
are rare as angels visits to our earth
and they are the exception of human ex-
perience.
Our Public Schools are the only schools
to the mass of the people, they give the
key Of knowledge, they are the quarries
whence shall be extracted the stones Of
which the national edi6ce Of the next gem
Grafton shall be fashioned. Every pupil
viii grow up to FIJI some place, either in
buttress, pillar, basement, pinnacle, col
umn or capitol,
From among the children committed to
the training Of the teacher of to-day future
electors and candidates for Office shall
come; by these shall questions of law, f.
nance and education be controlled. And
shall these future jurors aud senators be
men Of right minds and pure hearts, to
reject the bride and reverence their obi
cations? Shall these future citizens of
our land grow up to grace the nation with
the buoyaney of industrious, productive
and honest men? or shall they by their
crimes only add TO our taxes by filling our
jails, alms-houses and State prisons, or
perhaps end their career by swinging from
the gibbet
These are questions, my fellow teachers,
that must receive attention yea, they are
questions that we must answer.
"The way the twig is bent the tree in
clines, and society win be psofted when
every teacher win have learned to practice
the wisdom taught in the maxim that,
eff zoe take care Of the children, adults
VIII take care OF tnehfclfes.
The downfall Of Rome may be traced to
the corruption and vice that polluted the
fountains of her education, hardened the
hearts and DEPRIVED the morals of the
children. The revolution Of France was
oceasioned by improper education Of the
young. The Dantons and Robespieres Of
that headlong age we're taught in the school
Of cruelty and death. The American
Revolution was not the dayspring of
American Liberty, but the spirit of free
dom was brought here in the breasts Of
the Pilgrims, and was made the earliest
impress upon the minds Of American chill
dren, and ere the first gun of the Reyolu-
ton was fired the children, in the language
Of d British officer, seemed to draw in a
love Of Liberty with the very air they
breathed, and the present condition of our
national heart, must, il changed at all, be
changed, not by influence but by forming
the man.
We sometimes hear men boast Of the