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to remember a phrase in whllh charlea Lamb describes the ac- countant. John Tipp, "He thought an aeoountant the greatat char- acter in the world. and himself the greatest accountant in it’. I do not. of course. propose that we should be vain or arrogant but I submit that no man was ever auc- cenful in teaching who did not know the pain of sacrifice. the strain of labour or the burning seal of conviction.

In these days of popularity polls and all-atar selections I have been tempted by the spirit of the times to indulge in fantasy. Looking back across the ages. over the systems and the scholars that formed the tissue or educational history. whom would we choose to teach in the classroom of an ideal school. That is a perfectly useless exercise. I know. nevertheless it is s refresh- ing one.

Difficulty arises at once when I choose ii teacher for the Kinder- Iarten. It is impossible to choose between Froeble and Montesorri. and. what is still more embarrass- ing, we would face almost certain disaster if we chose them both. Their ideas of child d . ‘ t and of Psychology were so different that in the heavenly Kindergarten I am certain the sparks muat fly. Pestalozzi would be a logical choice for one of the primary rooms and I suspect the pupil-teacher rela- tionship would be extraordinarily happy. At the same tline it is doubtful if the same could be said about his relations with other mem- oere of the staff and I fear the curriculum and the timetable might be rather badly disorganized. Comenius would be ii natural choice (or one of the elementary class- rooms. His carefully illustrated textbooks and audio-visual aids would certainly command the in- terest of most children and they would be quite within the spirit of our times Another elementary rlassroom should be labelled “the garden of pleasure" and there we would find Viitorino de Feltre, a contemporary of Leonardo da Vinci. who was school master extra- ordinary to the Duke of Mantua's children as well as to some of the peasant children from nearby vii- lages .In the intermediate grades, standing squarely between the vernacular of the elementary school and the classical secondary, is that doughty Elizabethean, Richard Mulcaater. whose reputation rests almost equally on his success in teaching the humanistic curriculum and training his boys to produce plays for the Queens court. Next, I suppose, l-iurbart might intro- duce his rather cold. iormal plan of teaching according to the principles of the new science of Psychoioity. Perhaps our next choice should be Kennedy, repulcd to have been the best school- master of his time and head- master of Snrewsbury. but he was an eccentric who prided himself in arriving at his classes fifteen minutes late. His record is marred by a furious temper. on one oc- casion he absent-mindedly expelled his whole school and then had to commute the sentence, requiring each boy instead to write the 119th Psalm in lambic cantameier. Edward Thring deserves a place,

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discouraged to begin with. and now they were more discouraged than ever. They fluttered about in dis- trees in front of the place where the mud-home had been. They twit- tered diseonaolately.

“It's of no use at all," twittered little Mrs. Muddy who had work- ed very hard. “Thia mud is Just no good. It is no good at all."

“Wh|t's the matter with it?" twittered Porktail the Barn Swal- low, who came along just in time to overhear her.

‘You can see for yourself what’: the matter with it. Look down there and see what has happen- ed" said Mrs. Muddy.

"It isn't the mud, it's the ones using it. The trouble with you folks is you haven't yet learned how to use mud. Just mix a little straw with it. and it'll be all right." said Forktail. and flew inside the barn to join Mrs. Forktail who was just lining their nest with some feathers she had found.

“My dear. we can't stay here." said Muddy to Mrs. Muddy. “We'll have to go on somewhere else where we can find the right kind of mud." .

"I guess we wiil." sobbed Mrs. Muddy. "I don't want to go. I want to stay here."

he could give them sufficient in- dividual attention. They would be examined systematically every week and a report on their progress sent their parents. Finally I should like to give the senior class to Thomas Arnold whose influence on the sixth form established the tone of his whole school. His aim to make Christian gentlemen and his las- sons in history combined with his sermons in chapel to accomplish this purpose In a remarkable de- gree.

What. sort of men and women would graduate from such a school as that? At least such an exocri- ment deserves as much thought and money as our defence pro- gramme and our atomic research. It would establish a level of com- petence and conviction toward which we all must aim. Meanwhile I am sure we are all encouraged by recent efforts to raise the stand- ards of professional training and service. Some of our provincial de- partments, many of our profession- al asaociationa. several of our uni- versities have given leadership in providing improved programmes of teacher education. Through the co- operation of these agencies higher standards of entrance have been established and provision has been made for longer and more varied training. It is in these develop- ments that we must place our hope. If I judge the public mind cor- rectly, the teacher is held in great- er respect today than he was ii generation ago, not out so much of respect of his accomplishments as from a better appreciation of his responsibilities. There is still dissatisfaction. as I have already indicated. that our performance should range so widely from good to zero. while the minlrnum stand- ards in other professions are rea- sonably high. There is some auspic- ion of our reliance in salary ache- dules under which we make no provision for merit.’ Unsyatematic and superficial programmes of teacher training are the cause for wonder and alarm. Nevertheless, the

need to recognize and purge our ranks of profemional mediocrity. If we turn our

the lasting gratitude and respect both of our own generation and of the next. That is the challenge

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the Prince Edward Island Teach- ers’ Federation. welcomed and should be sent to Estelle Bowness, General Secretary, 98 Prince st, Charlottetown.

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and it is ready to support us more vigorously than ever before. In looking to us for leadership it ex- pects us to place service above privilege, quality above numbers, the good teacher abovethe journey- man. We need a clearer vision of professional excellence. We need to recognize professional merit. We

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