The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-11-06

For the benefit of authors and pub
fishers. she must conduct an expert
ment station with the latest efforts in
text books, whose only merit Oft
times, Is that they are new and differ
ent, are highly recommended by the
book agents nj will give the school
a reputation for keeping "up with In
times" In the event Of failure, the
fault, OF course, is always with the
teacher.
She must at her own expense at
tend institutes and associations, lis
ten to long winded theorists. dry-as-
dust professors, sentimental idiots,
enthusiastic promoters, visionary re-
Formers, shrewd self advisers, Der
slstent hobby-riders and educational
mountebanks only to attend the next
meeting and hear a new crop of the
orlsts with a job lot Of contradict
tons, a series of orders and counter
orders which would bewilder the
best and most astute philosopher.
She must contribute of her time
and money to charitable enterprises,
church suppers, Sunday school socia-
Dies, reading clubs, sewing circles,
mothers meetings, literary societies
and to hen parties of every descrip-
ton. She must visit her pupils in
their homes, kiss the babies, praise
the children, fiatter the mothers and
De kind to the husbands without
arousing the jealousy Of their wives.
she must be all things to all women
and some men, or she need not expect
10 retain her position.
She must govern wild and wicked
children, even when parents fail. She
must be wise as Solomon, patient as
strong and enduring as Caesar,
tehder as MaecenaS, and more even
tempered h the Almighty himself,
1or we read in the book that the AL
mighty was Wroth with the wicked"
When he punished them, but a teacher
VINO Furnishes in anger Is guilty of as
saut. she must be a model of pro-
prlety In all things, for are not the
eyes OF the whole community upon
her? She must know the usages of
inc world and of society, but must
stand aloof from both. She must have
numlllty, confidence. infinite tact. per-
iect health, common sense in ab1nd-
ance, a modicum Of wit. a world of
wisdom, and a little W~ickedness.
n must be little less than angel
and more than woman to endure the |
touI air. the nerve racking confusion, |
the disappointment in results of hard
work and conscientious effort. and the
thousand petty. but soul-kiiling an
Of the school room. she |
must submit with good grace TO the |
tnoughtlesS criticisms Of the ignorant
inc lhceSsant nagging of sophonoric |
the. unjust abuse of disan-
pointed parents, the more distasteful
plandlshments of those who seek "a
vors Tor their children by patroniy-
attention to the teacher. and ~
dictation of inc
and then for it all she re-
a salary which enables her IA
I'VE IN poverty, on the charity of her
on a rare and hard-earned
pension, or on the beQuest of some
P~nilanthrop1st, when she grows old. |
ans III, becomes a nervous wreck. Of
ENDS the powers that be, or loses her
pull. A
She must spend hours upon hours
1evtsing lesson plans, making ~renorts
compiling statistics, striking balances
ma averages, figuring standings.
directing countless papers, and tabu-
atlng foolish nswers to silly uues-
with the machine-like EXPERT
less Of a trained accountant to make
more formidable and less readable the
'uperintendent's report, and impress
! confiding and gullible public with
complicated machinery necessary
o a system of public schools.
She must deny herself the happi- '
less Of home, the pleasures of family t
life and the joys of domestic felicity,
nal, like the priests of the church, s
she may sacrifice all other interests
o those of her calling, and then she
s barred from the good positions be-
,ause she isn't a. man. t
knock on the pupil. who annoys '
on the superintendent who over t
works. her, on the parent who ignor-
Lntly criticises her, on the politician ]
Who ~patronizes her, on the paragraph t
r who satirizes her. on the board that {
Inderpays her, on the university pro- {
essor who libels her, n on the thou T
of single fools who do not mar t
her. {