The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1895-05-07
The Teachers Department.
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SOME REQUISITES IN TEACHING


as mental or Moral instructors. "A
servant of the Lord he says among
other things, should be apt to teach"
Whether, "r no, every instructor in
nur public schools regards himself, as
"a servant of the Lord, in bis spec
ial office, he is, nevertheless, enlisted
i'll II work, secondary to none, fright
~ performed, in the advancement of
his Kingdom Of Truth. SO Pauis in
junction is not ut all out of place if
transferred from the canon of sacred
writing and inserted in the decalogue
of the public school.
often wonder just :, hat kind of
sitting process it would prove to lie,
were our public school teachers Sc
lected and gIyen certificates of the
various grades, in proportion to their
proved ap,ncss or adapiabii,y To
teach, rather than in propmtir to
their perfection in smarlness, which
may entitIe them To receive grade
( of, or s, or 10
The true teacher, like the true ora
tor, or painter, or poet, is not made
such, but born such. No amount of
external equipment and mental fur
nishing ean ever atone for the lack of
II certain Unborn aptitude to teach, to
draw out the young mind, test it gen
fly and urconsrinusly, by turning it
this way and that, to find its bent on
inclination, then develop it aloug the
line and upon the plane OF its own
special powers. Thanks to 81. Paul
and the great teacher, whose pupil, or
disciple he WAS, the day is past when
1t seemed to lac Il principle of pcrla-
gogy that all Young IDEAS" without
respect to their varying abilities,
ShoHId he taught "to shoot with cX-
actly the same callibrc and force, and
all hit exactly the same mark. The
true teacher with the genius of Soc
rates, ora PesIalozzs, for teaching
will not heat and hammer away on
the Young mlnd until it Is hopelesslv
hammered out into II mere machine
of Il mind, with no force or originate
~ of It's own apart from the crank
which makes it rattle and turn, but
Will take the plant young mind and
APPLY teach it by degrees to stand, "
and then to "walIi alone" will train
and develop it along those lines of
strength and capacity most congeniai
to It's nature, and most certain to Sc.
cure its proper balance and it's perfect
symmetry.
Another injunction of the Apostle,
is equally ms essential. "Consider one
another" h" says, in Hebrews "to pre-.
yoke unto love and good works"
"Provuke unto love" And vet
how many teachers stop short at the
word "Pr"voke.' How many little
minds wonder and question why they
have been subjected to such strange
and unexpected treatment. Many i
person long grown gray and old has
opened to me wound received in
days gone by, from the hand or tho
look or The tongue oi their Childhood.
school teacher and to that day it was
an unanswered question in their mind.
why it was ever inflicted.
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