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Show REPORT OR SUPERINTENDENT OF INDIAN SCHOOLS. 479 ~lladew, hether in rnusrle or Lrnin! There ia il Rense in which the motto, "learning made my," i~ tlrz hane uf inudem nysterus of eduratioxr. I urge you to seek con-sriolrnly to ~ u gtou rnelre in the ~ l woci the chilrlrvn you teach, not that you ulav strength. 0nrYLby e f f k can he grow in mental vigor. Do not weakly &d fondly humor the vounz intrusted to vour care, but so study them as to learn where the uny is obsthctal frorll tlarir line oi approach, and id teilcll <!)em b. skillful qnw tiL uing how to apply their strengtlt \rlscly. To do this ne luuat put oumclvrs in their places arid look at life throllgll rtlrir ryes. 1 Now, this is by no means so easy to do as it is to talk of. Women are far more I finely syrnpathrhc Illall mm, yi,t ii a.:as x auluan shu wid, ''Yl,ur hut poCtarenLeur-ber thi.ir youth." The freshnrrs oi thc world, the 1,ividnc.s of inlprhqione, the wc rtderiul n.alitvof the orerznt. swallotvine uo in ita intensitv of nrnstion and emo- , ?.-- ~ ~ - - - ~~ Ion all memom'of t h e& and all comid~ra6onof a future: the narrowness of the 1 childish horizoin, in spaie and thought as well as in time; the'immensely exaggerated I ralnw in tTlr cI,il~li~liv~nucir~~~. I~Nr,^s ~6~nodf hew, and oi the pnGnt wiih; the endless lcngtll of a huliday in ih morning llrosllQc1, xrld the mlsllrmolmtahle diifrrull rli n i,rol,lnu that n.sist,,d tlrr 6 r l iew atwks-wr~11 tl~escfr om vour o a ~ ~ c l . i l ~ l l ~ c r ~ ~ ~ I r - ~ ~ ~~- ~ ~ ~ ~ aid see how in these respec& the world hae changed for you 1 . You will not d a p t your work to the child's mind and the child's needs unless you take pains to put yourself in the child's place. SCBOOb LIFE FILLS >,UGH OP THrS VIVID AORlZON OF CHILDHOOD, The very narrowness of the cirele of the child's intereats and .of childish life is desi ed, we must believe, to lend intensity and permanence to unpres~onsa t the chil% entrance upon life. Here we have one more application of that law of logic tht as the extension and com~rehensivenesso f terms diminish, their intensity and hvidness increase. It was esp&,ially ilrdignd, Illen, we nlllsl klie\.e, that i~l l i l t l~~in1 1th e+e YQBM of vivid iolprcdeiuna sllonld learn much irom rncre contiguity, from dny-by-da w~ar>riatio~ls with tl,a,ac. wltu are nearest them. \$'is,, tjxnwu fvel rllat tl.vvcan not Ee too ~!awf!~l to make such as it should be evew im&e and evew assoc:ation in this intensely vital yet limircd circle oi thv 1.llild'~;atwiou*11~e3. Sr.r>t: has h+tkr than clo you, my irirndri, laow large a plarc ill tliis childish horizon is tillrtl lwrt.llr,t,l liir. Think of it! For fire orsix houm n dav. lor firedava in the week you have the child under your care and inauence, duriyg the ten br twelve mas( impressionable yeam of his life. If no other element save time entered m, nu would be arbiters of that child's future. Tge Sunday school with its one-half hour a weak for instruction, in place of your sixty half hours--how slizht a hold it could eet upon children eave for the muliar nnr>in,,t h ~s. npvn~a t~~'lnmt\lv er of tbe trutti thbrc tauglrt. Indeed, how brnnll a shnw the 3untlily $(.l.t,ljl ad a ~rh001d oes have in forming tile idc,nle, the habits, the chrtntrter of lnort vl~ilclrm. when ar <!omr,arr it will, the <la\. eehool! The school-teacher has ihe child direitlv under her cark for many more hours in the wrek than h&r its on." mother. ~ i s rlur nprzd n.ith the oppr;rtunitim that the ijtlwr orJinarilv uses for rominp I<. *now his <,wn rllilclrrn intimatel tLe rracht.rr,iten kno\v;the child throurrh and rhn,nol~. wltilr. r l ~i.x thrr. from t c fe w hours eiven to home and little ones.;emains ahcst'a strawer to the bhild's mental influence of teacherito whomihese parents are content to reiain utter strangers, or is this only a proof of how lightly most parents wear the responsibilities of parent-hood? I TEE TEACHER MAKES. THE TONE OP SCEOOL. I Bna let na bring 1herltle.rric.n rlosvr ltome, and ank otrrselvra whethermoet tearhem appreriatr as tlic onpllr rlw vlrrr p o v r ivr gomi or for mil whirl) ia in their ibnntfdl Hcn,etnLer h ~ Xner p uud lastins ltn ~ ~ ~ T P P I I I0I11I I the ~ILiltlm ust be wade by the |
