Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-06-18

to apply themselves SO closely to study,
and when the last day OF school ar
rives both teacher and pupil drop their
work for well-earned rest. The pu-
pill has done enough studying for the
present, and needs a change, and the
teacher is unfit to labor on through
the summer if she has done her work
eonscientiously during the school year.
THEY NEVER TAUGHT SCHOOL
THEMSELVES.
The people who find the most fault
with teachers, and think that they have
too much vacation ard too high pay,
are the people who have the least to
do with them. These critics do not
know what they are talking about, as
some of their statements plainly show.
As to the five-hour day of the teacher,
follow one and see for yourself. After
breakfast she prepares for the work OF
the day. often going to school long be-
fore the opening hour. After school
she must stay to help some backward
pupil, or to correct papers, and fire.
quently in the evening she must study
in order to keep abreast of the intellec-
tual requirements of her position. On
some days her hours of labor outnum-
Der those of the mechanic.
Concerning the salary teacher re-
ceives, divide it by fifty-two and see if
it is too much a week. Take into con-
sideration the time, money and work
necessary in the preparation for the
life Ola teacher. Bear in mind what
is expected of her. She has fifty or
sixty pupils to keep in order and to in
sruct. Pupils with all grades of intel
lect, all types of disposition, and with
all kinds of parents, some among whom
cannot understand why their children
are not promoted as rapidly as other
children are. Would you be willing to
spend the time and money necessary in
order for you to become a teacher, and
then undertake the responsibilities of
the position for any less amount than
the few dollars per week which is the
average pay of the teacher? Never lose
sight of the fact that the teacher who
puts her soul into her work does much
for which she receives no pay.
THE BEST NONE TOO GOOD.
Think of the teachers influence upon
the pupils lives! Your boy goes to
Sabbath school one hour week and is
under the care of the day school teach
er several hours during each of five
days of the week. In view of this,
what kind of teacher do you want for
your child? Surely none but the best
the best intellectually and the best
in moral character and common sense.
/ mention common sense because it is
such a necessary thing for teacher to
have. She should be able to pick out
the child whose physical condition
| makes him or her less able to do a
hard days work, and to this pupil
/ oilOu4u NC Pun IllO CooiSi luCoSiOh' ShC
should win the confidence of the super
| sensitive pupil and do all that is posi-
| BILE to help him overcome this condi-
ton. She should be quick to discover
hose children whose parents are unable
| to help them in their studies at home,
! and, recognizing their harder task, help
| them the more in school. Said a High
school principal to a pupil whose father
had been dead for five years: Frank,
what are you going to do in life?" That
was the beginning of a confidence that
ripened into love, and the young man
now looks back with gratitude in his
heart for the man who advised him
what to do after graduation, and who
used his influence in getting a position
for him in a large mercantile house.
| Wanted, a man first and a scholar
next, should be the thought of every
committee whose business it is to en-