Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1879-05-16
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Teaching rs u Profession.

knowledge is specially ONES OWN,
that IN THAT province he has push
cd his explorations to the outmoSt
limits of the known and asccrtaincd,
and that the experience of standing
face 10 face with the unknown, il
one which no man can afford to
forego, nor will rest satisfied with
one such experience.
To have thus mastered some one
department of knowledge Ito have
made ousclf m authority on some
subject of dignity and worth, carries
with il reeompcnsc more than
ample. In the first place it will
surely keep one busy-which of all
temporal blessings, is perhaps the
greatest, for it is the parent of man
others, The general complaint is
that the labors Of tuition, and the
duties attendant upon teaching, are
usually SO arduous and numerous,
that no time is left for private
study. Life is no doubt short, nor
have we any ground TO doubt that
time is tlceting, but il is extremely
rare that any one fails to find time
to do that which he is very desir-
Gus Of doing We shall not stand
in much danger Of contradiction
when we assert that the time re-
quired to make one u master of the
science and art of the game of GRO
quct, would he amply sufficient, il
properly applied, to obtain a very
respectable knowledge Of the Histo-
ry of England from the earliest
time down TO the present, The
community resorts to the school
.a,,,tiisi1, y * y = lyssiarslhsQiildthcc
for light and guidance upon the
intr cacics Of croquct; while, I'M
happily, the encyclopedia and The
compendium nro regarded as safer
authorities upon any epoch III the
History of the mother country.
We would not be understood as
nsinuating that teachers ~ 4 CLASS
are indolcnt, nor yet that they do
not find enough TO do TO keep them
out Of Notwithstanding: But thc
kind of work which we are advoca'
ting ought not TO operate as IN
additional burden, but ought Il
serve, rather, 10 countenct the nar-
rowing influence of the every day
routine Of school-room duties.
But further than this and mor,
important still: Such independent
labor and study, serves 70 connect
the teacher with the world of think.
crs and workers outside. There il
undoubtedly some foundation lor
the charge 10 often brought against
the profession, that il seems to para
I'VE those business or executive
faculties which serve TO carry mon
through the world successfully and
with il reasonable show Of the ply
sical comforts Of life LAY not ~
for yourselves treasures on earth,
is fayoritc text Of scripture Will
our profession But what compo
sure Of mind can any proyiden
man have while he ii made 10 fec
that Il slender and precarious salary
(and too that often anticipated, dc
pendent largely upon the whims .
IA crotchcty sehool-board, is all tina
shields him and his family from
destruction. Parodoxical as IL may
seem, il il still true that certain
amount Of the "Mammon Of un.
righteousness II indispensable II
enable man TO live righteously
in the life that now is." II seems
70 require no ordinary human
firmness to resist the temptation 70
resort 70 sharp and questionable
practices when a man finds him
self forever chased by the spectre
Of want. A man who is yersed
only in the mere ART Of his profes-
sion, whatever profession that may
be, is always in dyRa gunnery..aq
placed in this
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