Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-07-08
A WORD FoR FEMALE TEACHERS.
Their Influence Upon Their Pupils
Adaptability for Moulding the
Young Mind.
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To the Tobacco Leaf-Chronicle.l
In your issue of the 1st inst. / see a
communication from rs. P. c."
Dist. No. s, on public schools. /
endorse the views expressed regard
ing our county officers, but think he
made a mistake in saying that the
county paid Superintendent Tyler
seven or eight hundred dollars as
superintendent. Doubtless j. U.
Tyler has received that amount both
as teacher and superintendent the
past year, which must have been
your correspondents meaning.
Without refined, competent SUI
perintendents, who have an abiding
interest in the education of children,
any system will languish. Our teach
ers, especially, should be endowed
with refinement of all the ennobling
sensibilities of man, for the education
of the children of a nation is the
most important responsibility rest
ing on any people. Great en-
inence in any vocation in life de-
ponds not altogether on intellectual
endowments, but the moral trend
the mind receives in early life.
Now, who is best adapted, both by
nature and education, to give this
all-inlportant cast to the minds OF
our children. Those refined, moral
sensibilities that give lustre to the
characters of our great and good men,
and that ornates nation with moral
grandeur are the effects of woman's
care, precepts and example?
No man with the same degree OF
intelligence is able to mould the
tender, opening minds of children,
nor give them that indellible imprint
of usefulness and moral worth that a
woman is. The All-wise Creator
seems to have endowed woman
with attributes and fitted her pecu-
liarly for the culture and instruction
of children. Woman's intuition,
whether cultivated or not, better fits
her for imparting instruction to
young minds than men, because it is
impaired with spirit akin to ma
ternal love. Her forgiving, forbear-
ing, motherly nature her patience
her affectionate surveillance; her
meekness and her gentle graces,
beget in the young mind something
like filial love, with desire to obey
her instructions and initiate her
examples. Hence she leads their
hayward footsteps by the silken
cords of love into the paths of recti-
tude and usefulness. Children gen.
orally regard q male teacher in the
light of master, while there seems
to exist between female instructor
and her pupils a reciprocal affection
which may be likened to that OF
mother and child. The love of chill
dren is Unborn with woman, and a
superior love for mother and her
tender sex is innate with children.
The importance of employing fe-
male teachers in our common schools
exclusively, is not duly considered
by the public mind. Such course
would most assuredly lead to many
good results, overlooked at present by
the people. The employment of
female teachers exclusively would
inevitably lead to higher standard
of female education, especially with
the mediocrity. The elevation of
female education with the mediocrity
would extend its elevating, benign
influence to the middle class to a
degree of refinement and social re-
spectability hitherto unknown. 1t
would eventually lead to the infiuen-
tial and ameliorating effects of a
higher standard of culture not only
with the middle, but also the lower
classes of our people. To entrust the
rudimentary instruction of the rising
generation to intelligent females
would be to insure blessings of the
highest Importance to every class of
society. 1t has been affirmed and
reaffirmed by our wisest and best
men, that all true greatness is the
result of early maternal instruction.
Then how can we approach nearer to