Omaha daily bee., 1919-10-19
DON'T CALL HER
A MARIN NOW
Your Teacher Is Too Wide
Awake an Individual
for That.


How would you like to be school
teacher? Not the comic supplement
school marin with scant hair and
spectacles, plying her ferrule. nor
she who teaches school by bringing
the class in percentage to the end of
page As on tn middle day of the
month, and sends note to the prin-
cipal telling of this accomplishment.
but real live school teacher, a wide
awake woman young or old who
teaches nine or 10 subjects to nearly
half a hundred eager young indi-
viduals, whether their eagerness be
a thirst for knowledge or for mis-
chief.
The school teacher who dips into
the possibilities of her work and
realizes the dimensions of its op-
portunities is very luckylindividual
indeed. for to her comes the widest
range of little intimacies with grow
ing humanity, and the strongest in,
fuence on the personalities strug-
Cling to evolve themselves, that any
person is privileged to experience.
She may teach little girl the gos-
pei of clean teeth and finger nails
and she may show a little boy how
to make relief map of the United
States with salt and water; she may
even have to sew button on his
shirt or mend a three-cornered tear
if she shakes him bit too hard out
on the playground. But if she is the
sort of a teacher who does these
things with exactly the same zest
with which she listens to the SPELL
ing lesion or dismisses the class,
she will be beloved of many young
sters.
Seventh Grade Interesting.
The women who has the greatest
responsibilities and privileges as a
school teacher is the grammar school
teacher, perhaps the one in the sixth
or seventh, grade, getting her pupils
ready for the junior high, trying to
pilot them through the uncertain
days of their adolescence with the |
least discomfort and embarrassment !
to themselves and their comrades.
Teachers above and below her have
fewer subjects to teach and less try
ing pupils to teach them to, for in
the lower grades children are not
yet personalities, and by high school
time thew are more settled and less
High school boys are
not apt to get crouch and sulk for
three days at time, nor require a
shaking which will loosen the but
tons on their shirts, but likewise are
they Cess interesting. asserts the
teache-. of younger boys who some
times has to apply vigorous methods. |
And it it always her boys the
teacher tells you about first, her
boys in whom she is the most inter
ested. When you ask her why, she
gives you many reasons. Some say |
that boys are fairer, some that they |
are easier to handle, while many of
the older teacherb admit that it is
mostly sex attraction. But what
ever the reason, their exists between
a teacher and her boys a sense OF
comradeship. which is rarer where
her girls are concerned. However,
both boys and girls vie with each
other in bringing her flowers and |
paying her other little attentions
until sometimes teacher" has to |
bring a bunch Of flowers to school |
for herself, to avoid the little i'll |
feelings which might arise from put
ting Susle's daisies on the corner of |
her desk and Roberts wild roses on
the window sill.
Must Teach Everything.
"You have to know everything to |
teach school in the grades nova
days." said sixth grade teacher
the other day and it is literally true.
She teaches English in the form of |
reading, spelling, composition and |
writing, to the sons of Italy, and |
countries further East as we'll as to
sons of New England. She holds |
classes in geography or history and
then teaches them the beginning of
science. BUT her duties do not end
with the printed page, for she must |
teach them to draw and to sing, the
latter being especially difficult when
a half dozen of the boys in the
room, possess voices wavering be-
tween soprano and bass. voices |
which any throat specialists will as
sure you should never be used for