Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1899-09-07
TEACHERS INSTITUTE.
MONDAYS OPENING SESSION
IN THE GRADED
SCHOOL.
Large Attendance and Great In
terest Manifest-It Will
Continue for the Week.

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The Wayne County Teachers
institute, for the white teachers
of the county, was formally
opened in the Goldsboro Graded
School Monday morning at 1870
O'Clock, and an unusually large
number of teachers from all sec
tions of the county are in atten-
dance, and more are expected.
The Institute was formally
opened by Mr.. Jos, E. Robinson,
Chairman Of the County Board
of School Directors, who spoke
to them as follows:
Teachers Of Wayne County:
AS chairman OF the Board %
School Directors OF tie county |
have the official honor and Per
sonal pleasure of formally OPEN
ing this Institute, which the Board
of School Directors has provided
and supplied with distinguished
instructors in order that you as d
body Of teachers may keep
abreast of the best methods Of ia
parting instruction TO the chill
dren committed to your car ard
training II the public schools of
the county.
With this simple announcement
| might conclude that my duty in
the promises had been fulfilled,
and yet we're l to stop here /
would feel that | had not done
justice to the abiding interest l
take in the cause in which you are
enlisted, and if any words OF mine
can lend encouragement to you in
your work, give you fortituda for
endurance in moments of trial in
the school room, or furnish you a
pleasant reflection in hours of leis-
ure, [ feel it is my duty to speak
them.
1t is an old saying-and as true
as it is ancient, that in proportion
as a PERSONS heart is in his work
in the same proportion Will he
succeed therein. This principle
pervades every avocation of life
and is equally true in each and
all of them. But especially is it
true-or, rather, especially is it
NECESSARY that the heart should
be full and overlooking with inter-
est and JoYING in its work in the
Office Of TEACHER, which should
be a VOCATION rather than an avo~
cation, in order to accomplish the
greatest possible good in this high
and most responsible sphere of
life.
We speak of the "F9untain Of
Knowledge" and as TIE fountain
of water which simply gives out
enough water to fill its basins but
never overhows will nourish mel
Their grass nor flowers, even with
in its very shadow, So is it with
the fountain of knowledge, the
child cannot reach to DIP therein,
but must catch the overfowings,
so to speak, from the teachers
heart: just us the grass grows
green and the flowers bloom ia
beauty aroanQ the overlowiny
fountain of water. Again, as the
draughts we drink from the fouE-
tain of knowledge in childhood
penetrate and permeate us so
thoroughly that Our very natures
are merged into them and tie
whole tenor of our lives attuaed
thereto, how important is it tlat
those waters should be OF all poas
sible purity, in order that the
embryo nature that flows In with
them to the child's mind may find
in the vital spark of Immortality
there a kindred spirit.
1t has been beautifully said and
truly, that t'souls live in perpetual
echoes and, that ga hidden soul
flows from the lips of the teacher
to the child" How important,
then, is it that the heart of the
teacher, from the abundance OF
which the child's mind feeds and
its nature is formed, should be
one throbbipg with al the noble1
impulses of humanity.
Indeed, the most advanced ap6
noblest scholar will find that be
can take the soft hand Of hi:
youngest pupil and soon realize
how eagerly bis own slightest on
ward leading will be followed BY
the child, for mind delights tc
marry mind, and science is but
the truth of the world in forms OF
reason, which reason seeks anC
without whichit cannot be satisfied
At times (no one can fix thes'
in the way of prescription, fol
mental regeneration is a mystery
only less profound than that o
the spirit)- he will challenge tn
child's tender eyes, already fllec
with "Wonder-mist," to a still
higher vision, seen as yet in bu
dim, shadowy outline, as by NJ
legerdermain, but with a MASTER
he removes one fold of tn