The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1882-05-25
THE TEACHERS LITERATURE.
BY j. w. JOHNSON.

n paper read Jeyorc the Jackson County Teachers
tatc, December, 1881.
Naturally enough It is expected of every one who
ers' instute that he shall presen. subject, the sub
stance of which shall have ditect bearing more or
themselves The representatives..
en- aord % be behind in anythiDg that perts to
his as e TG be
ter text-boo is requisite and yet not all that IS
ture as to him in its thousand dif erent
poets conquerer of his own, perhaps, irritable dtspO
sitieL and director and oyeiseer Of all those things
eres 10 % az eaeeT nis not know a tha
tiacted in the sense of having well defned limit
sne deames Of He
should not be recognized as such by he true teacb-
the people. And lu:thermore, the time is, when
BOOKS is but the 6esnnns Of thorough Training
go e @S e OF % VIM Ths tRe 2f
the knowledge of the teacher? Why draw line to
e not arr Has Ie NOT ateIiec and capaciy
and nielgence and Tea5on and gesire and aspira7
teacher 'scoolmase er' almost derisveIy applied
and ofte1fmes not Without reason ioos APPLIED IN
oG m tie o
10 leach school no matter how, when where.
about that he is teacher noble horest and rue
teacher in all the proper fignide}nGe of that .eTm
alert for knowledge. and who other than bejngia
simply man or Woman of general fSforma,ion. of
extensive learnng Of literature of etence possibly
Judgment Of good tas'e. good morals and with phi
Then my first prSposiIon Iea Is, hat every 'eaeher
best calculated to inform him with reference lis
book {heol es of how teach, or the art Of mitat
m others m % 1 be Of he e
of ohe s. Of those whose b. arts have been in their
Gepar epa fee & With such model t' as the lie Of
coming be- Ter instructor or becoming fred with
educaton We hear him maipg Il is assertion Ig %
norance in Republic is a crime, and private immo-
is suit in the the perpeat0r p His apDreciaiGn Of
words. Lost, yeste-day, somewhere between snG-
rise and sunsef Sc ITo osae Mos r e%Gn set Ih m 81
are az gone forever Hts lie was one Of sserifice his
educational weaie of the country the sole aim of
ed to Warm the teachers heart and to prompt him to
nobler eIertons and higher principles; to make aim
NJ ist labor for their GOOD. l-1i'
physical, moral and iqteiiectua, Nelhug eSeris so
great an influence on the caraC of the and
and haapness noting on the prosperity am peine-
g 9f b Our of 6S nd e can Of
rights; nothing will enable better he poor and mid
enoToaehmen!s 6I Of Tsah Pswer and lie; or ihe
ings of popular irenzy than SOUND EDUcATIoN.''
ed describing as he believed it, The true character
and effect of education he Uttered he iments
of Intelligent minds aud hearts to-day |
knowing in a measure as they do from experience |
that those things true. And then there Cbee-
yer, the odd Connecticut schooimsster,' who for |
seventy long years guided the intellectual feet of
New Englandfs rising generation, and who in the |
providence of Him whose ways cannot find out |
was permitted TO behold the circling of almost
entire century ere he was gathered to the clay of
his fathers. BY him begun the classical culture
of New England In his early efforts we discover
some of the causes which subsequently led to the
tabIishment of system of free schools. He
The tutor of the famous Cotton Mather well known
rom his connection with New England witchcraft,
md if he possessed some of the vices which belonged
% our Puritan Fathers in general in that yet his
eruditiOn, goodness and virtue such, that
hese discrepancies were yeled from o!Y sight, and
no teacher can read ms life without being benefited
hereby. Pioneer he was of New Eagland educa-
ion If his life and actions not models in every
espect for our present ageEthey at least noble
NIPPLES of the noblest and purest sacrifice behalf of
he interests of Americas early ancestry.
Snt time forbids that | should speak at length of
hese foreialers Of education, There are the immor