Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1910-03-16
BUFFALO TEACHERS
Responsibility of Instructing the
Youth of tbe Land
For The Gazette

greatest work that engages the
thought and invites the activity of
man is the education Of the young.
Upon the solution of this problem,
depends the future welfare of the
individual, the home, the church
and the State II man is TO reach
the highest state OF personal happi-
ness and usefulness, if the home is
to be elevated and made paradise
on earth, as it should be, every
youth must be educated. If the
community is to be moral and relig-
ious, if there is to be greater social
efficiency in the rising generation;
If the advancement Of the world, in
dustrially and intellectually, is to
be encouraged and fostered, there
must be more efficient teachers in
our public schools.
No teacher should enter upon his
work without an appreciation of his
opportunity, without sense of the
responsibility involved as a leader
and instructor of the young. He
must be genuine, whole souled, ear
nest, manly, true. No one can
measure the consequences of an
evil example on the part OF the
teacher. On the other hand, teach
er of pure life. clean habits and no.
| BILE character, is the most potent.
the most influential agent for good
in the community.
The teacher should be an educa-
tional expert, and as such should
know better than any one else the
kind of mental food that the chill
dren need. The teacher should be
able to stimulate children to intel
lectual activity and awaken a zeal
for knowledge
The old gives place to the new,
is true in education as it is in every
thing else. We must remember
that we are training the young tC
live well in their generation ano
mot in ours, and that it behooves us
| as teachers to look with a discern
ing eye towar the future so tina
we may read what kind OF citizen:
: will meet the demands in the mex
e generation.
). Too MANY of us are 10th to chang
Il our point of view. We think. otter
b that children should be educated
h upon the same pattern that we were
q instead we should see that the chill
1t Of today will do the work of anothe
r generation than ours and that til
kind of education that we receive
will be entirely inadequate for hin
- Every teacher must be somethin
of a dreamer or seer; must have Jul
enough of that combination of il
te agination and insight to see VIII
S kind of men will be needed to {
nl the work OF the next generatio
ne Will our ideals of today be theirs
" tomorrow? If not, let US not
y. slow to change ours. The wor
Oh will want better doctors. bett
nj lawyers, better politicians and bt
nc ter farmers.
Vi The finger of progress points
h many things that must be differer
d. Our share in the problem is to
OF educate this generation that tn
oy may meet the exigencies of t
% the next
OF The teachers Of today are holdil
all too prominently before our DO
SIS that each may one day become pre-
IL ident of the United States. Al
IT, we persistently cling to the scheI
re of successfully equipping for |
es the 1000, 900 boys and girls of
IS. United States who by nature a
N inclination are fitted for leadersf
TO in the Industrial and profession
all pursuits of life, while we flagran
w. neglect the remaining 10000,
nal who will play a no less indispen
IN bic, though less snowy part IN
. affairs Of the world. We want
.od educational system that will br
the greatest benefits to the many
well as the few. We must train
or citizenship as well as leadersf
,l'h If it is a boy S ambition to be a {
al- zen of his own community then