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truih iu this age of Rings, of Defaulters, of . and.small ¢ seein {that honesty, like many sweet and beauti- ‘ful thines, was becoming a little old-fashion- led? Have we not come to look upon it as (a rather inconvenient virtue,—one, the

practice of which will provoke the smile of

the wise of our generation, and cause us to

Shams, great Voes it not

scruputous neighbours !

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lineer many losses at the hands of our is not the apostolic @injunciion to ‘ Provide things honest in ithe sight of all men” less regarded in these {days than in those that are past } Perhaps ithe nearness of the evil makes it appear fyreater, and that the faults of our ances- jtors have a tendency to fade in the dis- jtance. { suppose that no one ever thought |

,

ie lived in the Golden age.

However that may be, no one will deny that we have far too much dis- honesty in this, our day. The news-

full of the « fraudulent

| papers — are transactions of corporations, and of the dis

honest failures of merchants. Our govern- ments are being continually,and as a matter of course, charged with dishonesty. In- deed, so many aad so grave are the charges of fraud and double-dealing brought ayainst our legislators that it has given rise to the common and most mischierous opinion that no politicicn can be an honest man. It will be an evil day for any country when those positians which, above ali others, require to be filled by men of the strictest honesty and the most sterling integrity, are eccupied by rogues and charlatans, and the morality of a country must have fallen very low, indeed, when in a self-governing community such a thing is allowed to

AMMA? LA} pen.

Again, is the standard of honeaty among our merchants as hich as it should be? it is said by many, I do not know with what degree of truth, that there are very few honest men, using the word in its strictest sense among them; that most, if not all, | traders are compelled to resort to artifices, }and to use means which, to the uninitiated, seem very far from being honest, not to say honorable. May not this be the reason why, when great temptations come, 80 many whom all the world had looked upon as men of integrity, commit deeds which send into the felon’s dock or drive them from their country to spend the rem nant of aruined life in banishment all that made lifedear tothem? But, bad as this is, there is a worse feature still in the ca No thoughtfal with the fact man who, by giving’ up his all to those to whom it is due, submits to a life of poverty, falls far lowe: in public favor than the dishonest debtor, who, by cheating his creditors, manages to keep up appearances. How many of the men or women who have formerly known the two men, will honor the former for the threadbare coat, which is a badge of integrity, and see in the elegant carriage or handsome house of the latter an evidence of diskpnesty ? Too often the occupant of the carriage receives the bows and smiles of the crowd, while the wearer of tha seedy garment is conscious of many an averted face or haughty stare. Such things ought not to be. have

them

observer can help being struck that the un-

fortunate

few instan- dishonesty ; more than

What has all

only taken a prevalence of but I dare say I have cited enough to make you say, * this to do with schools and school teach- ers?” Wecannot change these things if we would. We have not the power to con- vert the dishonest citizen, merchant, or politician into an honest member of society. We cannot prevent his wife or daughter from spending that which be- lonys, not to herself, but to the servants, ereditors or emp!uyers of her husband er father. Ne; have an influence, greater or less as it may be, upon the leg- istatars, the merchants, the tradesman, the wives and daughters of the future. Per- f none, except of parents, can it be «d so truly as of teachers, that— ‘© Our e¢hoes roll from soul to soul, Ac@ vow ferever and forever.”

bnt we

and honesty. or on that oP deceit and fraud } ‘he child’s first. experience of the world ’. There he must

| others have rights as well as he.

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ing, in some sort, te himself. « Here, he tinds that others have property with which he has no right to meddle Here for the first time he enters into competition with his felléws, and learns to measure his strength with theirs. He must be kept from tyrannizing over those who are weaker than he, or froin over-reaching those who are stronger. Those teachers who think that all they have to do is to fill the minds of the boys and girls under their charge with a certain amount of what is called book-learning, make a great mis- take. Ifa boy is dishonest, 1 am very much inclined to think that the less he has of this the better for himself and the world. The apt scholar, who advances rapidly in his studies, but who, at the same time, gains a knowledge and_ acquires a taste for those little tricks and stratagems by which we learn to deceive one another,

p.’—Have we forgotten this |

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is our infaence tu be on the side of honor |

learn that! Q At home i ue has looked wpon everything as belong- |

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INDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1880.

rould have 'olaying in the farm and the house.

igratniate ourselves, and with good reason, {on the fact that the teachers of the present

| day are Jess severe, more sympathetic and

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We con- |

NO. 125

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that in our system of giving merit marks, we may put too great a temptation in a child’s way. I appeal to teachers who

have used our school registers to say

| whether they always feel confident that the

| pupils have taken the

; 7 , > c ‘thoughtful than these to whom our fathers | ; rye . o \

i went tos thool The atrecities of Doethe-

1. we flatter ourselves, can But are we careful

» we refrain from cruelty, we try in every way to promote the principles of honesty and uprightness amenyg our children, and that the best means are taken to check, at the very out set, the slightest tendency in the opposite direction !? 1 will now proceed to speak of some of the ways in which IL think the evil of dishonesty shows itself in school life, and of some of the means @f checking it, hop- ing that what I drawing forth the opinions of wiser and more experienced teachers than myself. I will only allude to the subject of theft. In a well managed there is very little of this; the teacher is at ali | Vigilant, the offender is soon fuund out. I would only ask here whatis to be done with the boy or girl who, after being de- tected, persists in a course of dishonesty / Is it better to bear with such a one in the hope of ultimately deing hia or her some good, or is his influence so bad and the an- noyance he causes so great, that we must have recourse to that last resort of teachers —expulsion !

never enough

) iy ~~ {VOY 8 fia | be repeated. that, while

school for if

Next to this is tlie evil of truancy. This is a growing evil in our towns. in some , of course, the blame lies at the door of the teacher who makes the school a place to be hated. But in many instances boys find the freedom of the street or the fiel® more pleasant than the restraint of the best regulated schoolroom or the control of the kindest teacher. There is no demoralizer like truant-playing. The lad whe once commences it soon becomes a confirmed liar and an _ insubordinate, troublesome scholar ; while the evil ways that he learns on the street make him a dangerous companion for his schoolmates. In other cities I believe they have truant dtticers. Lf all parents and teachers did their duty, these should net be needed ; but almost any remedy is better than none. { think if some had the power to give the young men a week or two of hard work in the field or werkshop, it wonld go far towards curing them.

Cages

One of the most prevalent forms of dishonesty both in the world and in the school, is that of | shirking

| work. Contracts are breken and wark neglected, or only half done. Few men or women are over-conscientious in the water of giving a fair equivalent in work for wages received. Here, 1 think, onr in- fluence can be exerted for good. If we take care ourselves to do our work faith- fully, to waste no time in school hours, to show that we are anxious that our work shall bé well done, that whether hard or easy, whether we are well-paid ov ill-paid, we shirk nothing which it is our duty to do,—our example will tell. But neither precept nor example will take the place of training. Let.the child be taught that he is sent to school to work—that it is due both to himself, his parents, and his teacher,that the allotted task shail be faith- fully performed, and then let the teacher see that it is done. I think it is well for the teacher, in setting a task, to take care that it is well within the capabilities ef the class. iuet it be short and easy. It is better that the clever pupil should finish his work in half the allotted time than that the stupid one should be so overwhelmed with the difficulty of accomplishing what he has been required to do ithat he has no heart to set about it. 1 wonld just say, by the way, that | consrder it much the better plan fer all young children to be set to learn their tas school if for no other reason than this. ‘he teacher has complete con- trol of the surroundings of the child who is studying. He can see that every child has a fair chance to learn his lesson, and is then in a position to judge whether or not he has done his best.

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One of the greatest tempations to dis- honesty in the schoolroom, comes from the tendency which almost all children have, to copy. Ido not know of any-fault which is so hard to conqner, especiajly ina graded school where a large class is set to do the isame work. The clever industrious child | works the exercise, and his more stupid or more frequently, his more indolent neigh- bor. will obtain the benefit of nis work. | The result is that the Copyer besides acquir- ing a dishonest habit loses all his self reliance, and becomes a drag on the school. lt ishard to convince achild that it is ‘really wrong to ebtain help from his neigh- ‘bor and still harder to persuade the helper ' that he is doing his friend not a benefit but lan injury, by allowing him to copy his |work. Constant watchfulness and a little | wholesome severity, are perhaps the only ‘cures for this evil. Self reliance is the sworn foe of dishonesty. The man who is ‘confident that he can earn his own living is ‘not easily tempted te pick his neighbor's | pocket or forge his friend’s signature. The ‘child who can work his own exercise, wil ‘not ask his neighbor to heip him. Another | way of encouraging honesty, and its parent |honour, is by not allowing any child to put ‘the blame of his own faults on his neighbor's shoulders. If a scholar dees wrong, be should be taught that he and he alone,

‘must shoulder the responsibility and bear

the punishment.

Is there not also a danger

number of marks /

awarded them. Nay tan we even feel

‘sure that in the stress of scheel work, we

ourselves are able to award each child his due. Does it not often happen that on

hearing a scholar’s average in the evening

'we know that it does not give a fair repre-

sentation of the day’s work ?

say may have the effect of |

Has not that child been taking a lesson in dishonesty far more injurious ts him than the knowledge he has gained has been beneficial. In a large school where it is impossible to look over each register, the mischief done in this way is sometimes, [ fear very great

Yes, but some of our best teachers say that is the fauit, not of the system, but of the school. If there were a healthy publie opimion among the children, there would be no cheating. True enough, J too hope there is a day coming when we will need no locks to our doors, and when our prisons will be closed forever. Butwhowill saythat therefore the merchant of to-day should expose his goods to the thief or the banker allow his wold to glitter before the eyes of the robber Would either gentlemen be conferring a benefit on society by doing so! 1t appears to me that the teacher who gives his schol- ars a chance to ch2at him, adopts very much the sime plan as the shopkeeper did who allowed the halfpenee to lie around in apparently unnoticed corners, in order to test ihe honesty of his errand boy,—with this difference, that while the latter was sure to detect the thief, the former, is almost certain to be imposed upon by some one at least of his scholars.

[ have but touched upon some of the temptations to, and a few of what I consider the remedies for, dishonesty in school life. In the mat- ter of merit marks I speak with great diffidence.

After all, any promote the virtue

means we use to of honesty among

j our pupils, will be of little avail unless we

are thoreughly upright, truthful and honest ourselves. if we in any way try to deceive ovr scholars let us not flatier ourselves that we will sueceed. Children, guileless as they are—perhaps on account of that very guile- lessness—are sure to detect deceit or fraud in others. If we make them ae- complices in eur attempts to deceive our friends or the public, let us beware. Deceit is easily learned, and he who teaches his scholars either to make others believe that they know more than they do, or to conceal their ignorance by a show of superficial knowledge, will be sure in the end to be found out and despised by his pupils, while by destroying their confidenee in him, he is taking the very best means to make them dishonest. Let us then, with frank, truthful earnestness, en- deavour to do our dyuty—arduons as it always is, very difficult as it sometimes must be, so that our scholars looking upon us will see examples of that honesty to which the Great Master gave the highest sanctien, and for which He gave the fullest

precept when he said: “‘ Therefore, all things whatssever ye would that men

shoulk them.”

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