The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1881-01-13
THE TEACHERS LOT.

A Collection OF Quotations Upon the
Amenities and Tribulations OF Teaching.
Teacher" "And the Lord said unto
Moses-Maggie Ford, put down that
slatel'
Delightful taski to rear the tender thought,
To teach the young idea how to shoot
-TAomson's I" Spring"
To sentence a man of true genius to
the drudgery of school is to put race
horse in a mill.-COLtOn.
Taught or untaught the Ounce is still the same;
Yet still the wretched master bears the blame.
Dryden.
The schoolmaster is apt to be favor
ite with the female part of creation, es-
pecially in the rural districts.-Irving
Uneasy lie the heads of all who rule;
The most 30 his whose Kingdom is a school.
%. W. Holmes.
I can easier teach twenty what were
good to be done than be one of the twenty
to follow my own teaching.-Shaks-
peGre.
Came the. Preceptor, gazing Idly round,
Now at the clouds and now at the green grass,
And all absorbed in reveries profound
OF fair Almira In the upper class.
Worried and tormented into monoton-
Gus feebleness, the best part of life
ground out of him in mill of boys
Dickens.
She dwefls by great Kenhswa's zide,
In valleys green and cool,
And all her hope and all her.pride
Are in her village school.
-Lonafe1ow.
If a student convince you that you arc
wrong and he is right, acknowledge it
cheerfully, and-hug him. Emerson.
The twig is so easily bended,
have banished the rule and the rod;
have taught them the goodness of knowledge,
ThAr Hawa t0rr fI,A s1,-.- -nf( (I~1
Charles Dickinson.
If vexed with q child when instructing
it, try to write with your left hand. Re-
member a child is all left hand.-J f..
BOyes.
To rear, TO teach,
Becoming as is meet and fit,
A link among the days toknit
-7ennsso
What comfort some pedagogues might
derive from the thought that wise pupils
can learn as much from fool 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
With gracious lives and manners fne,
The teacher shall assert her claims,
And proudly whisper, These were uine"
-Whatier.
The eminences of their scholars com.
mend the memories of schoolmasters to
posterity, who otherwise, in obscurity,
had been altogether forgotten. Ihonaa,
Fuller.
Pretty were the sight
II our old halls could change their sex, and Haunt
With prudes for prOctors, dowagers for deans,
And sweet giri-gIaduates in their golden hair.
-7ennyson
Ennyl man who has kept skool fol
ten years ought to be made Major Gen.
eral, and have penshun for the rest ot
his material days, and hoss and wagon
to do his going around in.-Josh BIZ
lings.
Der hayward childhood "0uld't thou hold hrH
And sun thee in the light of happy faces;
Love, Hope, and Patience-these must be thy
And in thine own heart let thom first keep school.
-Coieridge.
One-half of the children cried in oho
rus, eyes, sir!' Upon which the othel
half, seeing in the gentleman's face that
yes was wrong, cried out in chorus
ssNo, sirl'' as the custom is in these ex
aminations. dickens.
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 SyntaI and the Parts of Speech,
Or deal out authors by retail,
Like penny pots OF Oxford alei
o tits q SCI vice irksons more
Than tugging at the slavish oar.
Robert Lloyd.