New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1916-12-01

EXCHANGE CLIPPINGS
From State Exchanges
The Duty Of Teachers


The Duty Of Teachers
The sweetest words ever uttered
by human tongue are Mother, Home
and Haven.
1t is true to nature, although it
be expressed in a figureative form,
that a mother is both the norm
ing and evening star of life. Our
habits are formed under the mould
ing power of home, which is built
and safely guarded by the mother.
The tender twig is there bent, the
spirit shaped, principles implanted,
and the whole character formed until
it becomes a habit. And next to
the mother and the home is the
teacher, and the school.
1t is under the teachers care that
the twig in pruned, the young ideas
taught to shoot up in the right d.
rection, and eventually lead the child
to greatness and to God.
Next to the mother, the most H.
lustrious statesmen, the most distin-
guished warriors, the most eloquent
ministers and the greatest benefacr-
ors of human kind, owe their great
ness to the influence of the teacn-
ers and the school. Napoleon knew
and felt this when he said, what
France wants is good mothers and
true teachers, and you may be sure
then that France will have gooo
sons"
As the teachers assembled here this
week and discussed the modes and
methodes of training the rising gene
ration of New Mexico we felt sure
that the future men and women OF
the Sunshine state would have all
the fostering influence that was ne
ccssary to be made a soldier of la
po'eon's army and that New Mexco
wa assured of the best Of sons
Our faith in young people and IN
young peoples branch makes us feel
assured hat we shall not only Sc
cure the elimination of the liquor
curse in the state but in the nation,
iur there is nothing known to human
ingenuity which is So calculated to
root out vice and crime as educa-
tion. and the schools of the land
are already teaching the pupils, as
enc of the common branches, the
wllskey eyeil. Over seventy colleges
and Universities in the United States
today offer courses in the study of
the liquor problem and o than
a hundred others have volunteer tenn
pefance study classes.
To the enlightened foreign travel
err nothing in the United States has
excited So mrch admiration and Won
der as Lowell, Nashua, Manchester,
lawrence, and other manufacturing
towns of New England. That fac
tory girls should play on the piano,
and sustain a creditable magazine
by their own contributions; that
factory men should be intelligent
gentlemen, we'll read in literature,
and totally ~unacquainted with whis-
key in any form, have been for many
years the browning marvels of Amer
lea to all travellers of good judg-
ment and this condition is entire.
ly brought about by the teachers
and the schools in these factory
towns.
Daniel Webster said: Knowledge
does not comprise all which is con-
toined in the large term of educa-
ton. The feelings are to be disci-
pinned, the passions are to be res
trained true and worthy motives are
to be inspired; a profound religious
feeling it to be instilled, and pure
morality inculcated under all circum-
stances. All this is comprised in
education"
BY gaining a good education the
right kind of a man or woman shall
have reward in the rich stores Of
knowledge they have thus collected,
and which shall be at your COM
mand. More valuable than earthly
trcasurc-while fleets may sink, and
store houses consume, and banks
may totter and riches flee, the in
t~ellectual investments you have made
will be permanent and enduring, I'M
failing as the constant flow of
Niagara or Amazon bank whose
dividends are perpetual, whose wealth
is undiminished however frequent the
drafts upon it; which though moth
may impair, yet thives cannot break
through and steal.
Nor will you be able to fiji these
store houses to their full. Pour in
to a glass a stream Of water, and
It 'ast it fits to the br'm and will
not hold another drop. But you may
pour into your mind, through a whole
lifetime, stream Of knowledge
from every conceivable quarter, and
vet shall it never be full but it will
constantly thirst for more, and WEI
come each fresh supply with a great
or Joy.
Nay, more to all around you may
%inlnart Of these Gardening streams
which have SO fortified your own
mind, and yet, like a candle from
which a thousand other candles may
be lit without diminishing the flame,
your supply shall not be impaired.
On the contrary, your knowledge, as
yon add to it, will itself attract still
more as it widens your realm Of
thought; and thus will you realize in
your W life the parable Of the ten
telents, for ito him that hath shall
be given"
The highest learning is to be wise;
the greatest wisdom is to be good.
The wise man looks forward into
futurity according to the teachings
that he received at his mothers knee
and from lis teacher.
Guard well your duty, teacher, and
do not fail to instill into the young
minds which are under your care
and training. the damnation of in
temperance. Bend your twigs to the
hills. and in afr wears Won