Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-03-10

the matter of election of teachers and trustees enslaying the teacher, have placed him in a precarious condition presenting him with a card of dismissal, if he dares to raise his voice sl protest. When mans lot has been deliberately cast with this line of work actuated by the merits of the work, he does not like to retrieve even, if compelled to let pass the comforts and luxuries of life
 ''He patiently waits in hope that the public will not only look with more favor upon his sphere, but will accord to it it's ust amount of remuneration.
 "The teacher should no longer pale before the coming of mon strous hand of law, and sneak away to the silence of the shadows He should stand forth arrayed in all his might and manliness to resist the sycophant threats of the law He needs make no apolotgy for ex- istence. Let him pass from the stage of action and the curtain falls never to rise.
 "The impression that this and that one is teaching only for short while, merely to finance his prepa- ration for calling more worthy of inherent and acquired worth. Many thousand teachers have left college with insufficient means and experience to effect a triumphant entrance into the legal and medical professions and they deign to teach for a while because they know that they can find ready employment here and sure financial reward. It should be understood by such that when first out of school they are no more fitted for teaching than for addressig jury.
 Since this deleterious idea is widely practiced, the requirements for admission into the pedagogical work should be increased so as to debar the man who would insult and degrade the profession by con- tributing his insincere and paltry efforts to work that he does not intend to- prosecute.
 "I am inclined to regard the man who thus imposes his raw self, his immature and scattered ideas upon the profession of teaching, some what as coward, because he dodg- es what he believes to be the more real issues of his career, by hiding himself in the obscurity of a rural school until his period of prepara- tion is finished and then he walks boldly out into his beloved profes- sion feeling himself competent to take immediately rank with the leader of the profession.
 "A law should be enacted at once that would so elevate the profession of teaching by raising the education al and moral requirements and the salaries in proportion thereto that would prevent the wreck left in the wake of the transient fellow who takes cowardly advantage of teach ing, while he is secretly entertain ing disrespect for the work.
 Some leading disciples of Aris- totle, who have spent two score years teaching, drop poison into the minds of their subordinate or younger co-laborers, by encouraging them to believe that the world will never correctly appreciate. the teach CT, and that talent should not be confined to the narrow channels of pedagogy. Never was a sadder mis- take made; ever did one contem- plate a more pitiful moment than when looking upon one grown old in the school room exhorting the youthful asHrant to shun the schol- astic< work, and descanting upon the bitterness of his fate.
 "They are viewing life from one of two lenses, either through the Tense of intense selfishness or through the glass of gold-perhaps through both.
 Superiority of Teaching. "The superiority of teaching as contribution to society, the vital and indispensable necessity of schol- astic training and the nobility and sacredness of the work should dis courage no one who is prompted by
 his better nature to assume in ear
 nest the duties of teaching. There comes not a day whose