Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1888-07-07

1ngs and associations.
g Ills true, tbs pity, and pity It's, It's true, .
that these potent factors of professional training
and educational adjunct are so little practiced and
so little known. They are the we'll springs of truth
from whence the young teacher draws his first
draught of inspiration. And of our four thousand
teachers, who is not panied to think how few there
are that avail themselves of this their only help
or hope? And what may we expect for those by
design or accident, placed under their care? And
still it must 90 on, among rural scenes especially,
with no means of redress and little hope for the
future.
In the second department we are brought to
consider the science of health, as conducive to
usefulness and to happiness, and the means by
which we may ordinarily preserve the one and
thus insure the other. 1t is shocking truth that
man so fearfully made and so wonderfully fair,
so beautifully formed and so trancendantly great,
should be SO vastly ignorant of his own individual
and beautiful organism, and under the shadow of
his own dark understanding tear down, demolish
and ruin the exquisite structure with all its beauti
full attributes of mind and soul, animated anGspol-
ished and ROBBED in thoughtful loyeliness. How
many of us when passing the meridian of life and
sinking under the weight of physical and intellect
ual ruin, when our condition dawns upon us, will
exclaim as the great st. Augustine: 'Too late have
Iknownthee, o beauty ever ancient and eyernewi''
In the third department we draw inspiration
from the pages of history. 1t is filled with food
for the reflective mind, and such as may prove q
wholesome stimulus to the young teacher. There
the wisdom Of the ages is brought down to the
present; the virtues of nations and of individuals
are placed before us for emulation or the vices of
kings and of people are visited with punishment,
and thus become an example to admonish us for
all time
The philosophy Of history directs the actions of
mankind in great affairs, and the study of history
affect the minds, morals and relations of people.
Here as in aglass they see the result of misrule
and unsound; unwise and unjust policies of other
governments or may admire the wisdom and nteg-
rty of great and good rules and take cognizance
of the good or evil that followed in shaping meas
ures and directing affairs of hodlsmal times
Aside from these, one great item on the perusa
of history is mental illumination, for great ancient
writer has said ''that to live in ignorance of what
has passed before our time, is to pass our lives
away in infancy"
In the fourth department of the course we find
a literary Eden, where we may refresh and regale
ourselves among the flowers of language, and the
productions of genius and of classic writer's.
Here the young teacher who has not had the
opportunity of entering the classic grounds of
college life or upon whom nothing but the rude
shadow of the remote country school has fallen in
the course of his school career here he may pursue
the study of rhetoric and higher English without
the aid of an instructor, and learn to appreciate
the most difficult writer Or finished scholar; the
variety of Shakespeare the majesty and wisdom
of Bacon, the sublime splendor of Milton, the fin
ished art of Gray and the touching beauty and
tenderness of Goldsmith. Here, too, we find the
polish of Irving and elegance of Addison; the
incagry of Bunk and the dignity of Johnson the
wit of Butler and hnmor of Lamb the power of
Cowper and the art of Gray; and here we may
call them together as friends to festal board to
laugh at their wit or to take council of their wis.
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