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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: regards his work ' cannot fail to feel,' says Laurie, ' that he is engaged in an elevating, an inspiring, nay, more, a creative task. He is in truth, if he will but believe it, a kind of moral artist. He has a plastic work to do the work of moulding the rude untutored nature of peasant and city boyhood into a shapely form. Nor will any one regard this as an exaggeration of the teacher's office who has had opportunities of contrasting the uncombed, untamed barbarian of civilisation, distinguished for his loose and insolent carriage, his lawless manner, licentious speech, and vagrant eye, with the same child sitting on the school bench, well habited and clean, his manner subdued into fitness with the moral order around him, his tongue under a sense of law, his countenance suffused with awakening thought, his very body seeming to be invested with reason. From culture unexclusively bestowed xpect these mighty issues; from the pains And faithful cure of unambitious schools, Instructing simple childhood's ready ear Thence look for these magnificent results. ' That such transformations are effected by the best schoolmasters, all know who have come into direct personal contact with educational agencies.' ' Go thou and do likewise.' CHAPTER II. SUCCESS IN TEACHING. I. The first thing essential to success in teaching is to have a liking for it. He who is destitute of interest will fail to excite it. The amount of interest felt by the teacher is the measure of that in the class, 'Like begets like.' The teacher's whole soul must be in his work. His heart must be given to it. Then his bright eye, beaming face, earnest tones, and deep sympathy, will develop corresponding phenomena in the children. Not that he should assume an interest he does not feel. But he should foster i...
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