Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1885-03-21

enee- In teaching as well as IN other
things, and the fact that teacher mas
taught a. guud q scnOOI his 6rst term
as any afterWald only admits of about
one solution and that is that he was 100
indOlent 10 improve. The teacher NUT
be living pattern for his school. To
say that pupils will net conform their
conduct TO that he was influence with
them. Then can anything be more ap-
parent han that that influence Oughs
TO be right, and that persons ought To
be sought VINO are known for their per-
sOnal iOrce and influence not only with
children but with older people? Much
mole general confidence will be placed
in {. e teacher who has his own ideas
ABOUT his work and insists on carrying
them out vigorously, than will be placed
IN the one who conforms the his rules
and mOlds his conduct to suit the WhimS
of some meddlesOme person in the
neighbOrhOOd, 1t looks like he knew
his own business aud was doing il as he
knew it, and that is the kind of q per-
son PEG lie respect.
Any business Is made what it is by
those who are actually engaged in car
rying it on. And though the schools
are a subject of general interest, if they
occupy high place they must be lifted
there by those who have In hand their
practical work, and more especially by
those who are giving their thought and
energy to the business and are making
it their vocation. The people furnish
the money TO carry them on and that is
nearly as far as they can be expected to
go. They do n make education their
study; it is not their profession. They
haYe other VOcatiOns that call for their
.Ffaal than hf nprfBv fDhGvy
leave teaching with all that pertains to
it as a practice, with teachers to mHn-
age and control. And they eXpecl the
teacher To devote his time and thought
10 his business as they do TO theirs. and
they will not properly respect the teach
er who Is satisfied with his own work
and goes on Year alter year using the
methuds that he did in his first schn"I
will not do much TO better himself, his
profession, nor raise the schools in the
estimation of the public If the school
work IS not progressing, it is at least
moving, and he who would keep along
must move with it, or move out of It
Teachers should allow no Oppurtuni
to pass if they would make themselves
competent to do the best kind of work
for the agitation that is going on at res
ent sweeps right ahead and he who
stops VIII get Dt hlnQ ana VIII De COM
PEELED I'd own his ignorance.
The examinations at present general
~ contain these progressive points and
they who complain that they have not
me with those points in their schooling
are simply stating that they have not
prepared themselves for the work which
they are about to undertake. And the
teacher who does not keep himself post
ed on school affairs will be continually
in fear of being asked about those aft airs
and having 10 acknowledge that he does
not know l think have seen leachers
who dragged along from day to day al
must ashamed of their work because
they did not know enough about it to
have a re~pect for it Themselves, or to
feel the dignity of it, and still were sur
prised that The board did not raise their
wages , and that the district did not be-
come enthusiastic on the subject of edu-
cation. II. B. TrAxler.