Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-11-13
The Teachers Lot.

tiles AND TRIBuLATIONs OF TEACHING.
Literary Newsl
Emmy man who has kept skool for ten years
ought to be made mayer gineral and have
penshun for the rest ov his material days, and a
boss and Vaughn tew do his going around in
Josh Billings.
If vexed with child when instructing 1t, try
to write with your left hand. Remember
child Is all left-hand.-J. F. BoDes.
0f study took he moste care and heed;
Not a word spake he more than needle,
Souning in moral vertu was his specie.
And gladly wolde he lerne and gladly teche
Ger hayward childhood would'st thou hold firm
And sun thee in the light of happy faces,
Love, Hope and Patience-these must be thy
And in thine OVID heart let them first keep school.
COtertdge.
To sentence man of true genius to the
mill.-COlton. 49,
one half OF the children cried in chorus. eyes.
SUI Upon Wnlch the other half seeing in the
In chorus, "No, !" as the custom ia in these
examinations.-Dtcke '''' 40 - 'n'''
Worried and tormented into monotonous
Of him in mill OF boys.-Dichens. WV
The twig is so easily Bonded.
have banlshed the rule and the rod,
have taught them the goodness of knowledge
They have taught me the goodness of God,
Charles Dickinson.
Taught or untaught, the Ounce is still the same:
Act still the wretched master bears the blame.
Dryden.
II student convince you that you are wrong
and he is right, acknowledge 1t cheerfully, and
hug him.-EHlerSon.
7 he eminence of their scholars commend the
memories of Schoolmasters to posterity, who
otherwise, In ooscurity, had been altogether
forgotten.-TbOnlaS Fuljer.
man severe he was and stern to view:
knew him well and every truant knew:
Well had the boding trembler learned to trace
Inc day disaster his face.
Goldsmith
Uneasy lie the heads Of all who rule;
The most so his whose kingdom is school
o. W. Holmes.
The schoolmaster is apt to be favorite with
the female part of creation, especially In the
rural misunderstanding.
The poet has described the dull sameness of
teachers existence in these words: Fita71l
conttRet ana dieS.-DT. Johnson.
And while paltry stipend earning
He sows the richest seeds of learning;
No joys, alas his toll beguile,
His mind lies fallow all the while.
Robert Lloyd.
Still to be pinioned down to teach
The syntax and the Parts of Speech.
vi deal ont authors by retail,
Like penny pots of Oxford ale;
o It's a service irhsoue more
Than Juggling at the slayish
Robert loud.
She dwels by great Kenhawa's side,
In valleys green and cool.
And all her hope and all her pride
Are IN her village school. LOHafelL0C.
Came to the Preceptor, gazing idly round,
now at the clouds and now at the green grass
and 9ll absorbed in reyeries profound
VI falr Almlra in the upper class. L0nafeltGtc.
Neither do you, schoolmasters, a set too often
cheated OF your wages, deSpiSe the goddess
Minerva; it is she that brings you new pupils
Orid.
The teacher Is like the candle which lights
others in consuming itself.-R,qHni.
can easier teach twenty what were good to
be done than be one OF the twenty to follow my
own NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Righte lordly is We Pedagoe7le
AS any turbaned Turke,
Fer wei to rule We district school
Fulle solemn is We Pedag0gue,
Yet other While III hI he hath slthi.s smile
To give We handsome girls
ana one-Ee fayrest maybe of all
shah be, when spriingey e flowers shall brinse,
1e Pedagogue his wife! John g. SAFE.
Delightful task! to rear the tender thought,
10 teach the young idea g how to , shoot
To rear, to teach.
becoming as is meet and fit,
A link among the days to knit
The generations each with each. TenRyson.
Pretty were the sight
# our old halls conld change their SEX and faunt
WIN prudes for proctors, dowagers for deans,
And sweet girl graduates in their golden hair.
TeaRys0n.
What comfort some pedagogues might derive
from the thought that wise pupils can learn
FeddeT.
Instructors should not only be skllful in those
sciences which they teach, but have skill in
practice.-Dr. Watts
And when the world shall link your names
NV With gracious lives and manners fine,
The teacher shall assert her claims,
And proudly whisper, 80 These were mine,''
Whittier.
Teacher: ..And the Lord said unto Moses
Maggie Ford, put down that Slate."