Bisbee daily review., 1903-02-17

child must have built up his character,
 ms Intelligence, his skill before as a
 nail tne hest can be gotten out of him n the worlds work. The average parent thinks very little about the
 school as long as his Johnnie or Mary seems to get along fairly wei and does not disapprove of the teacher too
 much, and if furthermore the yaea,
 tions are not lang TOT the holidays .reaueaitt s55 Leaving the family olive
 branches more in e. fdence at home
 than is desirable. One mo, eE 0ia
 me that she would like to have schoo.
 close on the last day of June and open
 on the first day of July. The average
 parent judges of the condition of the
 school by the order If he thinks wei of the school he is apt to say. 'Oh. it lis a good school She makes 'em
 stand round" or "The school does not
 amount to much. There is no order.'
 But on the whole the general attitude
 oi the teacher and parent is one oe
 mutual good will, mixed with consid. erable indifference and more or less adverse criticism in case the pupil does not get on as smoothly as is de- slrabie. One mother told me that she had never. seen teacher all Of whose acts she approved. As far as my di5- serVauon goes the whole human raee came in the same category and theu. too l never knew a teacher of ba4 ooy who approved Of all she did. A French woman once said: "I think If is so strange but I never in. my Iifa have met any one who was always right by myself Not many are as Frank as the French woman thoush many are of her opinion Howeve5. most parents intend to uphold the all! thOrity of teachers though few will do so as thoroughly as the Hiberniar lady who said to me, Jerry came home from school the other day and he says, The principal called me an Irish fool, and I says, the principal Is an eddicated jintleman and he has d right to call you what he plazes and I'll give you batting for it and I did.s Underlying her remarks was q sub. stratum of good sound sense. though she did not reason out the matter she felt that the principal really had the good of the boy at heart and so he had. The relations of parents and teachers should be one of mutual regard and confidence and that state of feeling would be more apt to prevail if par ents, mothers in particular, would take more pains to acquaint them selves with the trials to which teach, CTS are subjected. I do not mean to say that one class is always right and the other always wrong but have had the fortune to see the situation from both sides, having had two school chil. dren in my family for years. and in cases of differences it is more ire quently the fault of the parent than the instructor. And then, too. there is another consideration You cant ex- pect to get absolute perfection for $T5 a month. It is something the case of the brakeman who was asked if he could not call the names of the sta tions more distinctly and who replied:
 T can't afford to hOller any plainer
 for forty dollars a month" A great
 deal of sentiment has been said and
 written about teachers and ministers
 working entirely for love but you have
 probably observed that the majority
 of ministers hear the voice of the
 Lord from the direction of the largest salary, and likewise the best teachers
 will go where the best salaries are paid unless considerations of health or home ties bar the way. There are
 so many things I would like to say
 to the mothers of the older pupils but fortunately they are not members of the Wonan's club. and others would not be interested, so I forbear though assure you it is quite a piece of self denial not to say more. on a subject that interests me so deeply.