The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-05-01

grown to know nothing of ourselves, save
what we see in the opinion of others, look
in faces about us for courage and IL we
see there doubt. we see it again reflected
in our own hearts mirrors and we shrink
back. afraid. while the moving opportun-
ity passes on into the hands of those haN-
ing the confidence to try and the courage
to battle manfully for success.
Seif-reliance is truly the only Keystone
of success and vet the lack Of II, when
we look about us, is pitiful. We see 1t
in the homes of hopeless poverty; in the
human machines: in the idlers of fashion;
yea, even in the Teacher (sometimes), who
year by year tolls on, crushed by this
weight of Self-fear.
We fret and fume that idleness should
be so common. and though it may ice a
besetting sin. yet ] verify believe that we
shun rather the pain Of a dreaded failure
than that we avoid work.
We look toward the desired end. We
see the labor necessary to reach it and
beyond the goal of success, and we turn
lesser things. Because we fear the work?
No. but because we fear we may not
reach it. Let others try while We sink
into less than 4 cipher. The folly of this
self-negationi
1t is this that makes us poor. Poor in
that we have no courage, nc hope, no
light that is not borrowed. We scarcely
feel il yet, but when thcre comes. as sure
there WILL the dreary day. when we grope
in the outer darkness for the guiding
light of a forever vanished guardian-how
poor we are if we cannot look within and
find for ourselves a leading light.
1t is this that makes us unhappy, for
we must, indeed. be unhappy when We
carry with US a burden of blame for
blaming them if we feel that they and
us are responsible for our failures
This it is that keeps men slaves. Slaves
to customs, to wealth, % power.
1t acts as eXecutioner when right goes
down before wrong and as smithy for the
king who shackles down his subjects with
the iron bands of tyranny.
1t is for us, in the school room, to bat
tie with this evil. for here, more than
elsewhere, we notice this growing want.
1t is here we should labor for the growth
of self reliance, for the strength of the
child. the man of the future, the atoms
of the nation.
The evil of the lack of self-relance
stands before us, but how shall we face
it? Trust. L think, in ourselves. The
teacher who shows the faintest weakness
or lack of Self-reliance, who needs must
seek help from others. surely cannot di-
rect the child to work out for himself
his own salvation. If we cannot master
our difficulties, surely we cannot ask the
child to master his, for precept without
example is a hollow sham. which though
1t may deceive older people, cannot de-
ceive the child.
In the discipline of the school room first
is vast field for the cultivation OF self
in the child. We are all so anx-
iouS to obtain that GREATNESS quiet which
wins such golden opinions from all visit
orS that we are apt, in its attainment to
forget the best good of the child and use
means which crush the manliness out of
the heart of the boy and cultivates de-
pendant timidity in the heart of the girl.
! hold that teacher entirely wrong who
shifts from the shoulders of the pupils to
her own the entire burden of the order of
the room.
Each child should-must feel that on
him individually rests the honor the good
of his room. And he will except