The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1881-02-17
THE TEACHERS LOT.
A Collection OF Quotations Upon
the Antilles and Tribula
ti0ns Of Teaching.

Teacher-"AEd the Lord said
unto Moses--Maggie Ford. put
down that slater
Delightful task, to rear the tender thought,
To teach the young idea how to shoot.
-Thompson's "Spring."
To sentence a man of true genius
to the drudgery of a school is to
put a race-horse in q mill.-Colton.
Taught or untaught the Ounce is stiI the same
Yet still the master bears the blame.
= Dryden
The schoolmaster is apt to be q
favorite with the female part of
creation, especially in the rural
districts. Irving.
Uneasy lie the heads of aIl who rule;
The most so his whose kingdom is q school.
fu3 %. W. Holmes
| can easier teach twenty what
were good to be done than be Que
of the twenty to follow my own
teaching Shakespeare.
Came the Preceptor, gazing idly round,
Now at the cIounds, now at the grass,
And all absorbed in reveries profound
Of fair Almira in the upper class
Worried and tormented into mo-
notonous feebleness, the hest part
of life ground out of aim in a mill
of boys.-Dickens.
She dwells by grea. Kanhawa's side,
In valleys green and cool,
And all her hope and all her pride
Are in her village school. c-
Hffe s -Longfellow.
Ii student convince you that
you are wrong and be is right, &C
knowledge it cheerfully, and-hug
him.-Emerson.
The twig is SO easily bended, frte
have banished the rule and the rod;
have taught them the goodness Of knowl-
edge,
They have taught me the goodness of God.
Charles Dickinson.
If vexed with a child when in
structing il, try to write with your
left hand. Remember child is all
lett hand,-J. F. Boyes.
To rear, to teach,
Becoming as il meet and ft,
A link am ong the days to knit
The generations each with each.
-Tenny son.
What comfort some pedagogues
might derive from the thought that
wise pupils can learn as much from
a tool as from a philosopher
Vedder.
Instructors should not only be
skillful in those sciences which
they teach, but have skill in the
method of teaching and patience in
the practice.-Dr. Watts.
And when the world shall link your names
18th gracious lives and manners fine,
The teacher shall assert her claims,
And proudly whisper, These were mineW
Whittier.
The eminence of their scholars
commend the memories of school
masters TO posterity, who otherwise,
in obscurity, had been altogether
forgotten.-Thomas Fuller. 81
Pretty were the sight
If our old halls could change their sex, and
faunt
With prudes for proctors, dowAgsrs for deans,
And sweet girl-gratuates in their golden
hair.
-Tennyson.
Emmy man who has kept a skool
for ten years ought to be made a
Major General, and have a penshun
for the rest his material days. and a
boss and wagon to do his goIn
around in.-Josh Billings
Ger wsyward childhood wouldst thou hold
firm rule.
And sun thee in the light OF happy faces;
Love, Hope and Patience-these must be thy
And in thine own heart let them first keep
-oOldridge
One half the children cried in
chorus "Yes, sirr' Upon which
the other half, seeing in the gentle
mans face that yes was wrong,
cried out in chorus, 'sNo, sirp' as
the custom is in these examina-
tions.-Dickens.
And while a paltTy stipend earning,
He sows the richest seeds of learning;
No joys, alasl his toll beguile,
His mind lies fsllow all the while.
Robert Lloyd.
Still to be pinioned down to teach
TIE Syntax and the Parts OF Speech,
Or deal out authors by retail
Like penny pots Of OXFORD ale;
D tits q ser vice il ikssme more
Than tugging at the slAvish oar:
Robert LloYd