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Show ence which each one of us cmies with him through life. The elements of all our sub- 1 sequent experience were there and it sometimesieemsas if we had stood, since those early years, withinasphere whiichhas widened and enlargedasthe walls of thebubble grow away from its center, always reflecting the same world, but in an ever-larger where. on a constantlv broadenine scale. ' I t ii;;llis l,errx~alre~olf~ er arly i ~ p w s r i o n ~ , lasti~l?a nd ronJitioning power of I rhc. i~,fluvuceu~i ,llildlrood and early yontll, that pi\.cs to the teacher of p u n ? cl!ildre~r her nol,le duwer ci sweet yet ynre rt+l,on*:bility. I Every surrounding, every association of early life, has an influence on the child which it is almost impossible for the adult to understand, save as he remembers it. I I t is worth while, thin, for those who teach to make every possible effort to recall their own childish wa s of looking at the world, so that the minds of those they t~arhm av not be to tgem utkr lv unknown. Sunuose that. familiar onlv with the I ~ - - ~, ~ ~ field of knowled in which he &es to teach, b s a n utte; stranger to the child's nature and the cf?ldls way of looking at life and at knowledge, the teacher attempts I to guiJe it. \Vl~ut right have we t i llupe fur auytl~irlg ulire rhau rhanrt. ats,G-s Irrn* and there'! Surely tlw r,.u:h~r's la~iine:r i* I., s r~r~lyyol luy mintl?, alrd rhr 1~t.~!1113rititelm~d l Ih'lo11~:1 0 childibll and yuutl~il~$lv nvu~f luukinle 1 1 thiner, ii l l ih I bibh is mally to be akcceasful guide o? the young, to stimulcte themu& high achievement and noble living. Does any one of you donht that the childish way of looking at the world and at the subjects vou are trvine to teach difEers utterly from vour wav of lookine at them? I If yv!t tiotrhithis, you-~u&t have been much rurh orcuiied in forcingon puk~l:!~l~at von tarrried tlrcy rrenlr I than iu tiudiu o~tti hei~a. rtual neecl~. Pt,rliap !o+rc.iin. ;~~rn*.:, i wro who tenrh littl., cbildrcvt s.Ronrrn~\vavai l l ilxnpcr of not thlnklnc ,hen I .- ~ ~~ ~ ~ ~ -~ ~ enoueh or carefullv enauzh of this difference betwkeu the Gorld & it looks to voo 1 and %e world as iit lies bgfore the pairs of childish eyes, blue, and black, and brokn, that open on it from s, plane 2 or 3 feet lower than that wheh yaur eyes occupy, and ten, or twenty, or thirty years younger than yours. If you are to be a tmly successful teacher of children you must learn to put your-self iil the rhild'ti pl:we,-ru look u ~ urn r l r r wor1.l tllr ru,$r a <.llilrI's ryes, 15 corirpre-hend thc practiwl diflicultitw that lit. in tla? way of u i.llild'a pnt@ss. W r often nrre the vounc to bc manlv. to take a mature and wise view of the world and of life. Th;s is $ell: but in afl'true teaching, as in every 1-1 contract, thrrr UILLSI 11,. '.a rntetingof min,L:" and it iri nmolralrlr 10 r x icg t t h n i t h c ~ h t . r , wlr., has had thradvxnrap of krmwing hy rxprrier~ec both heie period3 of lifr. ~llc~ucldo rather m01v 1111111 half-tvav to I>riulta bvnt i h i ult!t!tin~. It inmonr ru,a~on-able to Zxpect the teacher to put hikelf inclligently in the pu5il's place, which can I,,, IILIIP bi- canw~t lvrr vxllinp her own early lit:., rlran to dml ind cnnrrsntl ui tile pupil t h < h e 1a111dll lio~ielui pon an unkno~vni urure and "l,e 3 u!un'' irt%isvien-oi the r h , . i'llil.lr,.n have rrevrr knouu manhuud and wot~#anliood. \\'otnen and men have known childhood1 H a ~ p var e they who are called to t a c h , and have not forgotten their own childhood!--. How we reverence the teachers who understood our childish needs and tmly b ~ ~ e uhs1t Into the ranks of true teachera-a bodv of u w ~ l eho nored hv all the th&htful with an honor second to that paid to nndothei prbfession (for tKe clergy are ci~.svrviui:o f ho~loro nly in ropa,rriun'ax thvy ace trulv~comtni~sio~aend efirci-ive tea~.LIeoi~ the highi\'t *nlf U ~ O I Iv iul trot11I-into the hondrr.al nankti of true t+,nrl>rlu"r~ .,~u cnn nescr rornr s i t l~outth id suirit of sv!nmthetic L I D I ) ~ ~ ~ C ~o>f ~t~lt~e O ~~ soul life and the needs of those whom YOU are to &"h. ' I s w it Pkerently-for all tailtin): affwts imm,rral sun13 and i&u.,rtal inremt.-as ir iatruc..i rhc<ery Kine-dur~<. i Hcorrn, EI i t is true of t l ~ pr n ,ie.siou of tt.arhillg. ~lni chd ex14 rou~rirnrly w r l-, -..t.,o.ls i,n tloviv \SHY tun.~nl$1 1. il\\.t~vi rr1.1 tll.tt K i n d jm-to rllc, rdnkti ui rruv ~ ~ ~ ~~ ~ teachers, "except yexeoome as little children, ye can n:t enter in." THIS WE4 NOT MEAN DO HIS WORK FOR HIM. But observe, pli,ase, that while I say this, 1 utterly disclaim any confidence in that false aystrnl oi sluottiot~a -llirh rl~niistsin the eifort to reruuve cvcry dittivulr frouc tho intcllevrudl unthwav of s cl.ild, lo uake ever!. %tt.r, olrz of une<,nsriour e d n , to humor every inclinatio&, every whim of"chilahood. Not so is manly fiber |