The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1876-09-16

forgiven when, il a biting sarcasm they gave him
the name Of s~chsclmsster and he showed himself
isGsisT in the schsol.
Then there ws some excuse when the school
master, to force 4 great physical development to
remain within its proper bounds, took to the cane as
the best felt ana consequently most appreciated
argument. For I was a time when society did not
know equality o men before the law, when the
lower classes wee blessed with nothing but their
existence-and oey had not always reason 10 be
thankful for this There was no law but that Of the
strongest. The ehoolmsster knew that By expert
enee, his was 50 5ften the side Of the weaker. And
We say we canforgive 4 schoolmaster who in that
time whipped 10Y even without apparent reason,
soured as was ais mind by the indignities aud
insults hespei upon him.. But those times are
partially gone. In America from the moment the
first Puritan settlers entered New England and had
built a house to worship their God as they under
stood 1.-THE secnd house built was q school. That
school developed Itself and became what it IS. a light
and benefit 10 the country, with a reputation
throughout, the Hrld Harvard College"
The French Revolution in the latter part of the
last century frstmsde the wants Of mental Develop
ment known to tie people in Europe. And in more
than one county the art of Education made con-
siderable progress In the school houses the laws Of
hygiene we're observed; schoolmasters took the out
line Of q tescher-yet tiere IS one very dark side to
the picture, the old sdoolmsster was not always
obliterated, even n theoutside teacher.
4 teacher must har influence over his pupils;
they must look up to him as TO respected elder
brother; the feeling he Inspires them with. must be
one of friendship, as thi term Is understood By the
child. II a teacher eve wants a cane, if he has
not that moral power which enables him to secure
that infuence-let him tiye up teaching, for there
is no man. not even a preacher of the Gospel, who
can and viii do more harm when he does not under
stand his duties and is lot fully prepared to take
them as they come to him A teacher must knead
the minds of the young and all of these are
capable of being nodded a q shape most approech-
ing that Of their Maker. Some may appear more OF
less tough, but the teache must find out and touch
the right chord, and they ull become fit for society.
Men as We are. and pOud as we feel when We
compare our cultivated Intellect with that Of the
child-we are not fit to be teachers. If in our
faulty superiority We scdd and punish a child,
without fret inquiring int, the causes Of what vas
perhaps an error, We FORGET that We also commit
faults with all our ordly knowledge, and that an
error committed in our thoughts, is n crime COM
pared to the act committed by the child without
reflection. We forget also that once we were chill
drep. and the man So can not forget his age and
go back in his mind bthe time when he was o child
who can not imagine What he would feel we're he to
take the place of the little one before him, let him
not try to become cache; be works his own
Judgment TIL. NJ. R.
Ito be continued).