The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1907-09-13

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ADDRESS OF WELCOME DELIVERED BE.
FORE The TEACHERS INSTITUTE.
Mr.. William E. Robinson delivered the
address of welcome to the teachers atthe
Institute held in Bel Air last week. In the
course of his remarks he said:
Il think you all appreciate the fact that
you have duty connected with your
profession which carries great respon-
sibilities. Just how efficiently this duty
is performed will depend largely upon
your personality. it may not be
prominent part of the curriculum which
has been adopted by the Board ofEduca-
ton. but, nevertheless, it is quite as i'm
portant. if not more so, than any branch
of study you have to teach, namely
character building. Do not for a moment
think your duties are performed when
you have heard and explained the lessons
of the day, this is only part of your
work You take from the mothers knee
almost all the future generation at the
tender age of seven, just at the time
when children are most susceptible to i'm
pressions. You have them under your
influence and control large percentage
of the time they are awake; and at this
early age they are allimitators, generally
irving to copy older people.
This being the case Iwould strenuous
ly urge that the first and most important
thing to do in opening your schools Is to
convey to the minds of the little ones just
where you stand on every subject that
contributes to strong character. Es-
tablish in your school a high sense of
honor; be with the children as much as
possible In their games; teach them to
look upon this so-called innocent little
cheating as horrible disgrace.
Do not lay too much stress upon high
examination marks. Youmay endanger
some of the weaker and undeveloPed
characters, unintentionally. Lowexami-
nation marks are by no means a disgrace
| if gotten honestly. Intact, the rank and
| file of our people are not short on educa-
ton. except in speaking and writing the
English language correctly. We want
more men who are scrupulously honest
| and truthful, industrious, prompt in the
performance of their duties, strict in the
keeping of their promises, and thorough
in whatever they undertake.
We want more temperate, God fearing
men. Let the children know how you
make up character. l am firm believer
in character being formed early in the
child's life Your work. therefore, is more
responsible and more important than
that of the college professor who rarely
gets hold of girl or boy until his
| character is fixed for life.
Above all thing avoid giving express
sion to a thought which tends to dishoner
any useful occupation, be it ever so
| humble. The occupation is honorable
just in proportion to the moral standard
courage because you cannot make
scholars of all your pupils. Remember,
| you cannot make brains-this is a work
of the Creator which no human effort
can change; just why he has distributed
them so unevenly, we are not called upon
to say, but the fact remains he has so
arranged it for some wise purpose.
Professor Newell once said that the mis-
take so many inexperienced teachers
make is in trying to produce oaks from
huckleberry bushes. l do not believe the
learned professor had any intention of
dishonering the huckleberry or exalting
the oak; they differ enormously, vet each
| has its purpose. The oak will not furnish
us with delicious huckleberry pies, neither
can the huckleberrv furnish great timbcrs
for building. We need both, therefore,
while you may be performing the stupen-
dous duty of directing the mind of a
future President of our great country,
| you will in all probability be educating
people for the more humble walks of lite,
as a large percentage of the population
of our country must of necessity be made
up of this class.
We hear the officials of the great Trunk
Line Railways praised for their extra
ordinary business capacity, but how
| rarely do we ever hear the name of the
man in overalls mentioned with his hands
and face black with coal dust, with his
hand on the throttle of his engine, carry
ing possibly two hundred passengers who
are sound asleep, at the rate of forty miles
an hour in all kinds of weather, and in
the black of night. Is not the faithful
and efficient engineers service just as
necessary and just as honorable as the
| highest official of the road? Who ever
heard of general winning great battle,
who did not give the credit to the men
behind the guns? What did Washington,
Grant, Lee and other great generals say
on this subject? 1t was their valiant
soldiers who won the battle but whose
names have never been recorded in his
| tory.
| lust one word in behalf of the dull boy,
or Stupid boy as he is sometimes called
because he does not excel in his recita
tons; do not discourage him. He may
be born for some great and useful work
whichis not revealed. Walter Scott was
considered the drone at school. We have
a great many similar instances. Youcan
neither limit nor foreshadow the sphere
of an American boy or girl, but faithful
duty we'll performed is honorable in the
sight of man and pleasing in the sight Of
| God.
Varieties.
| Family Dog-Did the cook give you
licking for eating up all of the whipped
cream? Family Cat-No. 1t got all