The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-12-11

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ton to como out letter-perfect Nothing
In the way tof mental sbacksmlthing ac-
cordlng to your way OF thinking, is too
heavy for he present breed OF brats.
Give It to EN- good and hard, you say,
| in a spasm Of pednsogic zeal.
And then, with burst or magnanimity
you announce that next week YOU wll
kindly delivers public lecture on reforms
IN cduca ton and how the young idea may
be trained to shoot-not with Colts
revolver or n Winchester repeating rifle,
as it would like. to--but In a manner
calculated to absorb all the wisdom In
ana out OF encyclopedias.
1t is fine and you get your name in
1.-The paper; and publishing houses send
you spipspectuses OF new biographies and
the dearest of little arithmetics; and your
coarse-minded money-making friends
grow respectful in your presence, and all
you are amazed to find how
Important you are.
But unfortunately there is a certain
nngra teful class which doesn't appreciate
you in the least and which thinks you
ARE n most understandable bore.
This class happens to be the school
trachcrs--the nerve-racked, brain tagged.
cha k-begrimed. overworked, peevsh
school-teachers, who by 8 p. NJ, are so
pugllaciously weary and so shrekingly
fatigued that they could whip their
weight In wild cats. Availability, zeal
for work. receptivity TO other peoples
IDEAS, and q general hunger for intcllec-
Htunl elevation, are nlarYellously brisk
with most Of us just after breakfast
especially IL we haycl had good strong cof-
fee and roe herrings-but the same vir-
tues become a gray horse OF another
color along towards the frazzlcd-out end
of the days toll when the desire for din
ncr Is lies one paramount emotion. II
you dent Eelieye me, ask the teachers.
Ana /, 1t, !! Is ut that hour that you, In'
your Titanic conccit, undertake to spew
out your nuggcty words Of educational.
wlsdohf to the bedraggled queens OF the
wriggl!ls, juvenile hosts. Or, mayliip,
lf you yourself are not above such gross
mundane weaknesses as the love for food,
you deliver SouI soul-uplifting discourse
Just after supper
In short, you trot out the porcupinish
sel:o onla'aT3 at an hour above all others
when the thing they most assurcdy don't
Wish TO think about Is education.
The vocation by which one earns his
bread may be glor0usly amusing during
business hours, but there Is n limit to
all things, and that limit, In the case Of
work. is like the Chinese wul. Or rather
Il would be like Il Chinese wallif We had
our way.
Fancy lot Of sweaty grinly brlck.lay
ers stopping after 9 T., M. to hear shoe
maker deliver a lecture on how To lay
bricks, Imagine how joyousy-nay, OK
ntantly-n band OF hod-curriers would
add an additional hour 10 their labors for
the pleasure of being told by some con-
Nrquental butter IN" how 10 conduct
their business.
Yet ms Is the sort of deal the school
hcachcrs are getting nowadays. These
good souls, faithful beyond the powers
OF ordinary endurance, arc being talked
70 dehth--lectured into frenxes-adyl4cd
+ 70 Inc point OF esperation-critlcized mn
" nolhins but the lack OF some avail
hnle punt INSTRUMENT saves them from
committing murder, And All ont OF
henooi nouns, too, whct, they'd like to be
uoiiis something to check incpiert spin
slerhooh or 10 snatch themselves from
Inc hungry may Of ceiibucy
But inc dldociic .pcrsccuioTs OF sholo,s-
eyed aclIoolmn'anls do not stop viii, mere,
talking, one can listen 10 d yii8t oi
~ pretty soporliclons words and iben
forget them Thu trouble. howognr, doeE
not end here Your pcaaeoglc fiend wants
ms ldeas i,ut into execution wants tno,n