The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1878-02-02
Written for the CHlEF.I
Education.
A Guide for Parents and Teachers.
By REV. DIR. SOPHAR.
VIII.

A tutor can absolutely not fulfill
his important duty, if he thinks
himself infallible, if he blames his
pupils for their bad habits and for his
own vain efforts to correct their faults.
With indignation he will look at his
boys; their appearance produces a
| disagreeable sensation; their youth
| full looseness will insult him. Often
he will suspect tricks and malice in
their most Innocent remarks and be-
lieve himself surrounded by naughty,
reprobate young people, instead of
blessing his fate that he has been
| charged with the most confidential
office of which man can be possessed.
How burdensome his daily task must
be to such teacher; how harsh his
voice; how perVerse his conduct to-
wards his young friends, and how
apparent his failure. Anxiously we
see him longing for the time when he
will be able to change his former oc-
cupation to another one, which, we
may hope, he will administer more
conscientiously. That time will come
and for moment he will feel happy,
but soon new unpleasaptnes will
cross his path, his expectations will be
disappointed, and, because it has al
ways been his fault to blame Others
for the result of his own conduct, he
renews his old complaints. The
beginning of wisdom is self-knowl-
edge;n where it is wanting, you will
find neither wisdom, nor equanimity,
nor content.
Ny young friend, if you intend to
conseerate your life's exertions to the
education of youth, be strong and
resolve, should you discover faults
and bad habits in your pupils and
not succeed in correcting them, to
look for their reasons in your own
moral and mental nature. Surely
you will find many irregularities,
which you did not expect to behold,
and if found, be cheerful and in
earnest to remove the weeds. You
will succeed and then-then, what a
pleasant change! The children COM
mitted to your charge will appear un-
to you in an entirely different light.
Their liveliness will amuse you, their
follies and looseness will not insult
you, but you will treat them with
more indulgence and fofbearance.
The harshness and bitterness of your
voice will disappear; the frown on
your face will be smoothed the emo
tions of anger, to which you may be
inclined, will steadily decrease. You
will renoHnee many unbecoming com
forts of which you were fond: you
will cast off many bad habit, that
made bad impressions upon your
boys; you will endow your delivery
with mole vivacity aud pleasantness.
IF you have thus corrected yourself,
what will the result be? You will
have educated yourself to hecame a
good tutor. Your boys will reward
yon with their love aud confidence
they will anticipate and obey youl
every wish Your efforts will succeed
by and by their faults and bad habits
will yield to better conduct. Then, il
in some cases you are not able to
master the enemy-if you can not re-
move the evil inhuence-well, you
have tho comforting conscience ot
asserting: | have honestly accom-.
plislled my duty and the failure o
my efforts is not my fault.
/ TO BE CONTINUED.
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