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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1886.

Tae Moral Influence of the Teacker as) great a hypocrite as you are arte ' yourself, but you will never succeed {Paper read at the Teacher's Convention by in reforming him. Shut your eyes neither Miss Lawson.] to his vices nor his weaknesses, but find, ; ; ‘if you can, the good in hin and work from 1 nave chosen this subject for my paper'that and on that till you have brought not somuch because 1 feel myself com- about a true reformation. . petent to write upon it, as that it is one! You say the good is hard to find some- which demands the serious attention of the times. I know it is, but it is there and convention. ,you will find it if you are good enough, as I do not expect to bring before you any-) well as patient and skilful enough your- thing new, but i hope that what I shall | self. say will set some of you thinking, and} Now, Ide not at all mean by this that draw from those who have already given} we ought to notice every little thing which the subject earnest thought expressions of | the necessities of school-room life oblige us opinion which will do us all good. ‘to characterize as wrong. On the contrary, “We are such stuff as dreams are made! to borrow an old teacher's phrase, ‘‘it isa of.” Circumstances over which we have no first-rate thing to be conveniently blind control, surroundings amidst which we had sometimes.” no part in placing ourselves, sights and| | will say something here, which per- sounds which pass before the eye or fall haps has not much connection with the upon the ear apparently unnoticed or un-/subject, but which may help some begin-

heeded; the tones, the looks, the gestures, iner: It is far better to aim at causing the

nay, the very presence of those with whom! children to do right than at compelling

ter moulds the clay. ‘received an impress which we cannot hope, ;and, | had almost said, ought not to try to

DRESS GOODS, |

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we associate, all help to make us what we are,

Now and again we hear of one who, brought up in the midst of vice, has kept unstained the garment of purity, or of an- other who has fallen from among the purest associations tu the lowest degradation; but

the contrary is the rule, and perhaps even’

where there are exceptions if we knew all we Would find that there were hidden in- fluences at woik either for good or evil, counteracting those which, though more apparent, were not so real. >

if, then, our characters depend so much on outside influences, how important is it that those influences should be pure and healthy, especiaily during the pevied of our lives when we are iuost vpen to outside im- pressions. For is it not true that our char-

| them to do so,

Many a young teacher has most consci- ‘entiously inflicted severe punishments ‘which have filled the scholar’s mind with ‘resentful and his own with regretful mem- ories, because he allowed a child to disobey ‘him when he might have avoided the pro- vocation to disobedience. ‘Lhere are some ‘children towhom ‘‘thoushalt” or ‘‘thou shalt ‘not” should be said as seldom as possible. | When a conflict of will arises the teacher iInust conquer, let him see that the respon- !sibility of needlessly provoking the conflict does not rest with him.

i Earnestness always experts a powerful influence. If the children see that we are in earnest about our work and if we can

‘convince them it is their duty to be in earn-

est about theirs, if, in- a word, we can

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| parity of age and still more difference of sex preclude this sometimes, but at all events we can let the children see that their games are a matier Of interest to us, and that we like to see them enjoying themselves.

By. keeping an oversight of their sports we would be able to check the begin- nings of cruelty, irreverence and {indecency mvre easily than in any other way. Child- ren are often, whether consciously or un- consciously, exceedingly cruel. A strange scholar’s life is made a burden to him for the first weeks of his coming tw school. Deformity of any kind forms a subject of cruel jests and taunts,while mental derange- ment is an unfailing source of thoughtless but most unkind merriment.

A lady a slort time ago told me that a poor demented creature roaming about the country had been so tormented by school children, that the very mention of the word boys was suflicient to set herin a frenzy. If we in our dealings with the children are uniformly kind, even to those who are un- attractive and unlovable, if we deny our- selves the gratification of laughing at their mistakes, and if we show the utmost consideration for those who are weak, either in mind or body, if, in short, we are truly sympathetic we may hope that we will graduaily etlect an inprovement in this matter. °

Reverence is ‘a quality which every teacher who expects to raise tie moral tone of his school should possess in a thigh degree. A profound veneration ior ca ; ; jali that is pure and youd, and for Bim who is the source of all goodness, forms the basis of every truly noble character, We should

be able to recognise the good wherever 1b is ito be found however mixed with evil, asd as one might fancy a miner valuing the jroughest piece of quartz for the speck of

acters grow with our growth, and strength-! succeed in arousing the conscience of the j gold it may coutain, so sho: li we esteem eu with our strength, and if, as we believe, | school we have implanted a truc motive forjthe weakest sod worst of Gur fptow

the character outlives the body, it is all!honest work. This is necessarily a sivw | mortals for the good that remains in them.

the more linportant that its earliest bias!

process and the same result, as far as pro-|

foa reverent soui none of Gods works,

should be in the right direction. Now a gress in studies goes, can be brought about much less one made in His own imare, is great part of the child’s waking life is spent much more quickly by a clever system of{common cr unclean. Now, Teverence is within the walls of the schoolroom. In-, rewards and punishments, but 1 submit 1 ltaught not so much by words as by tone

deed, between the ages of five and thirteen at least, the child associates with no grown!

is the wiser way and will enable the scholar to do his work better in the wider school of

person as he dues with the school teacher. | ihe world.

That during that time he is likely to be!

‘should be without. But we are only

under the control of several men and

Cheerfulness is a quality no teacher

women makesit of vital importance that! human, after all, and overwork, sickness, . . = ’ ° ee . ; e ; every teacher in the Province should realize} or our own individual griefs or troubles, | become se, and profane swesring and, what

his or her responsibility. all likely to be careless about the intellect-

ourselves. Good health is a great source of

ual advancement of our pupils. The in-jcheerfulness and we should feel it our

spectors, the trustees and the parents all take good care not to let us forget that it is our business to make the children learn. Competition among ourselves is now be- coming so keen that if one has not the fa- culty of imparting knowledge readily and

thoroughly he already finds it difficult to |

getaschool. But no examinations are held to find out whether the boys and girls under our charge are honest or dishonest, truthful or untruthful, selfish or unselfish, in a word, good or bad. These are things not to be estimated or averaged, but not, therefore, to be overlooked.

It is of infinitely more importance that

the scholars of this generation shall be thejand tending them.

good men and women of the next than that they shall pass brilliant examinations now

‘at the end of each term.

It does not matter so much whether, for instence,a man be a lawyer or a shoemaker,

a clergyman ora blacksmith, as that he;the influences that

should be an honest workman whatever his calling.

jbounden duty to get well and keep well ‘A sick man or woman has no business in a ‘schoolroom. But ‘‘necessity knows ne law.” Those who have naturally con- itented, hopeful temperaments should be devoutly thankful, for children hate mel- ancholy tones and long faces.

| But we can in this matter employ out- Iside aids. A sunny room, a few pictures ‘on the wall and fiowers in the windows, will work wonders for both teacher and ‘scholar. You will be astonished if you thave not tried it to find how soon you can jdevelop a passion for flowers, how much | pure enjoyment you can get from watching A good story, well told or read will often restore tone to a wearied or fretful school. Every one who has tried it knows that music, tov, is one great aid in promoting cheerfulness.

Perhaps the most powerful of all can ‘be employed lin a schoolroom is that of a_ kind- ‘ly sympathy. It is very much more

| dv not want to exaggerate the magni- | easy for some teachers to afford this sym-

tude of our task or our power of accom- plishing it.

cies at work though a very important one.

We cannot mould the children as a pot- Each one has already

‘change. Each has had given him his own nature, but, te change the figure, ‘within each nature is hidden as

‘in a seed the germ of good which is cap-

, able of being developed: at last into the i perfect man. To cherish and nourish this

‘germ is the most important—far the most ‘important part of our work.

Still we need not, or rather we should not divide it, for the soundest intellectual training can be

| made to afford the best moral discipline.

As the title of my paper indicates, I do not intend to dwell upon those direct ‘agencies which we all employ more or less ' skillfully in the government of our schools, / but rather upon the indirect means by ‘which we almost or perhaps altogether un-

known to our scholars, if not even to our-

‘selves, succeed in accomplishing our ends.

We do not, as a class, value highly enough ithe power of influence. Weare too fond of making rules, holding forth rewards and

‘inventing punishments ; things sometimes

juseful, I think not necessarily indispens-

‘able. We resemble in thisthe gardner who

inever lays down the spade and pruning

| hook in order to allow the sun, air and rain tg do their part in causing the tree to bring forth fruit. We ought remember that the

best we can do for our plant, t! hill, is ‘to put it in qe best condition for the forces

of nature to work upon it and within it and that too much constraint or too much stirculation alike interfere with healthy growth whether physical, mental orgpiritual. I wil! now, as briefly as I can, say some- thing of some of those qualities ina teacher which I think exercise a wholesome influ- ence on the school. First upon the list, I would place faith in human nature in general and child nature ‘in particular. Don’t think the children are ‘always wanting to do wrong, they are not, lexpect them to do right and show them what is right. Believe in a boy and he will 'inost Nkely justify your belief. i do not mean thai ) the same self-control and-the same power 0,

We are only one of the agen-| persons a

pathy than for others. There is in many natural childlikeness. They lseem rever to have grown out of their | hitahond. or rather to have taken the most beautiful and loveable of its qualities into their manhood or womanhood. It is one of the things that the cares of this world, or the deceitfulness of riches has never choked in their hearts. Such men and women enjoy nothing so much as a rollicking, romping game with children, and they are never at a loss for something to say to them. And the children knows by a sort of instinct when they have met such a friend. This power of entering into a child’s feel- ings is invaluable to the teacher. I have heard a lady say that she always kept her scholars at a distance. I have no hesitation in saying that such a teacher, however clever or concientious would be to a certain extent a failure. It is a bad thing to want self control, but 1, at least think that a warmhearted though passionate teacher would do far less harm to child nature, than one who of malice prepense separated herself from her pupils by a wall of reserve. See how all young things love to be petted. Let yourchildren come near you, the nearer the better. Do you think the great Teacher nade a mistake when he took the little ones up in his arms and pnt his hands upon them. Did not the loving touch add the efticacy to the blessing.

who loves us.

us wondrous kind”

us not to discourage the dull sch:

honld expect from children|hopless sadness over an unaccomplished

task would awaken other -feelings besides

one . : os te ee s a ' wasen ann application that you might, with justicef |those of disappointinent and annoyance, abd

eract from grown up stadents. ‘in other things, we ought to be “rich in saving commion sense” and in the homely old saying noi attempt “to put old heads n young shoulders.”

Now, i do not think, as some successful teachers do, that you should pretend to. Welieve wm « bad child. You A

by tyr & dourve, make yuy ve

In this, as] the sudden lighting up of his face when he

at last saw that he had overcome his diffi- culty would net in vain call upon us io share in his pleasure and to give him the much needed word of encouragement. If possible I think the teacher shou often share the games of the children. Le

would thu» have an op rtunity of learntag Uvi ak disposition ont chi Di-

meet in our own studies, we are far more! 4 great deal of ili-fee: likely to have sympathy with the clever J do not sec ! scholar, or the fellow fecling which ‘‘makes | one with the stupid one. j

There would therf be no need to advise res o. bholar. Hie! Withher. I have dwelt on this part of my

But such language is ‘easily understood by children. Leligious jason engaged in in a flippant or formal linsaner arc, 1 am afraid, worse than useless \ fer the purpose of promoting trne reverence. | Be reverent, and in time your school will

land expression.

We are not at make us depressed or unhappy in spite of} is more common in Uhese days, a careless,

‘irreverent or canting use of sacred words and phrases will be inpossible.

** Blessed are the pure im heart, said the Saviour of men, and to such He gave the best of all promises. i {seems to me ‘that upon us; devolves, to an almost fearful degree, the responsibility of keeping the little ones pave in heart. We ourselves must exchange the spotless robe of innocence for the strong armor of virtue, in order the better to guard against the insidious approach of the foe, or to van- quish him after he has gained admission to our little fold. ‘lo throw away the igure, for this is a subject that demands plain speaking, we must be watchful, wise and energetic, in order that innocent children may not learn from corrupt ones lessons which will do them infinitely more harin than all the learning of all the schools can ido them good.

But let us not forget that our own lives are episties known and read of all men, and that precept here is absolutely worthless and worse than worthless without practice. And now in passing I will just refer to the influence children have over one another. | Do we make enough use of it a3 a power in ithe school? Could we not obtain more help from itthan we do? I think so, but J | must leave it to others to enlarge upon the ‘subject. To return to the teacher. His influence extends far beyond the doors of ithe schoolhouse. He is a welcome guest iu ,every home in the setilement in which he ilives. He may and ought to be the valued \friend and companion of the young people | of the neighborhood. In every organiza- | tion for self-improvement, moral or iniel- ‘lectual, he is expected to take a prominent part. If he be a warm-hearted, thoughtful, earnest man, the moral tone of the whole ‘community will be raised. On the other jhand, if he be idle, dissipated and unprin- cipled, whatever social talent he may pos- sess combines with the prestige his position gives him to render him a dangerous mem- ber of society. To illustrate: 1 met lately a fine lad of about sixteen years of age. When I found out who he was and where he caine from, I, as is the manner of the craft, asked what sort of a teacher ———-, whom | had known as a clever though somewhat boisterous student afew years ago, was. The boy’s face brightened, end in a tone which evinced any amount of loyalty and admiration, he said, **he is a splendid teacher.” I do not know, but were La trustee, I would value that boy's recommendation so given above that of the

I hope there is nojinspector, or even the superintendent him- one here so unfortunate as nol to be able/|self.

to nuwber among the most cherished] memories of his childhood the funexpectedjrate the touch of a caressing hand, or the loving! power of en'isting the sympathy and win- tones of an approving voice. Even rebuke ning the affection and punishment, though perhaps felt far more keenly, uever leave behind the same! not because 1 undervalue tie sting when we feel they are inflicted by one | iy

Now, is it possible, think you, to over- influence of that man, with his +?

at al hers /

rticularly to men, but influence o1 fellow-teachers of iny OWN 8&2. In many respects, and those, not the -cust im

I have alluded jx

How to cultivate this sympathy is a hard | portent, a woman exercises 4 stronger 1 question. One way is to be a learner one-' fluence in the settlement than a mar. self. When we feel that we are often she is vain, frivolous and selish she can, baffled and puzzled by the difficn'ties we | without, perhaps, meaning to do so, create

atie Sim, Urptee . ing and jealousy, nd shetty it is possivle for such en

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tT. do any Good ; hnt if she be a lite hearted, loving women, the young J i both sexes will be better for associnting

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