The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1903-07-10
THE SOCIAL SIDE
OF TEE TEACHER.
[GiYen by special request ]

teachers have no sides. Some have
one side-a wrong side. Sometimes
the teacher has good side and
sometimes he has bad side. It
all depends, you know.
Really, what is a teacher!
Think k-did you ever see one? Is
he a fossil, animate or inanimate! !!
Teachers are geometrical PROPOSE
tions. They admit of solutions,
(some do). Some are commensur-
able and some are incommensur-
able. Some are mere lines, have
only one direction-one idea.
Some are mere points, that is To-
cation only. They exist but this
is all. Others are figures with
sides. Some have three sides-a
triangle. But there are different
triangles. Triangles vary-so do
teachers. Some have three equal
sides, the equilateral teacher, the
acute, the obtuse, etc. Then
comes the quadrilateral, figure
of four sides. Here is the teacher,
the regular and the irregular quad
rilateral teacher. But a quadri-
lateral may have three long sides
and one very short one. So may
the teacher, the financial side of
the teacher, for instance--it may
be entirely wanting.
But in the polygon we have the
figure of many sides, the regular
and the irregular polygon. So
we have the teacher, mostly irreg
ular, very, have you ever seen
them? By the way, did you ever
see teacher that you could not
locate? You thought he was a
square, but he beat you out of
school and you soon learned that
he Was not square. What is he?
a variable qGantitY. My! my!
my! have you seen chem! They
exist. But all figures are not
planes, some are solids. Solids
have weight. 1t takes power to
move them. Some teachers sim
ply float. They are not solid,
have no weight. Some teachers
are solid and hence genuine. 1t
takes something to move them,
$100 per month. Planes have no
weight, no thickness. Some teach
ers are planes, have no weight,
etc. Tewnty per month will move
them. But $40 per month is too
much to move 500 teacher.
But of all the figures the curved
is the most beautiful. There are
no sudden turns or breaks. The
circle is the most beautiful of all
figures. Every point in the curve
is equidistant from the center.
Did you ever see this teacher
round, full, every point equidis
tant from the center? Behold the
mirror. But circles have no end.
They are round, round, round.
And so with some teachers-end-
less-their mission knows no end,
beautiful, round, smooth, full of
good.
With the figures, so varied, how
how must | settle the question of
the social side of the teacherl
Who can, without knowing what
you are after? To the young
teacher | would say, do not cult
vate the social side, you are doing
that too much now. To the older
teacher, the old maid teacher
especially, | would say by all
means cultivate the social side of
life, it will be to your advantage
to do SO. The figure is too irregu
lar, not natural; make it regular.
It all depends. All figures in
geometry may be converted into
other equivalent figures. As to
the equivalent figure, you must de-
termine first what you are after.
For instance, if you want to con-
tinue teaching, convert your fig
ures into circle. If you want to
quit. construct it into a triangle
tfor a triangle is easiest placed we