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The teacher smiled, for her eyes were fearless. "What is your name?" "Mavis Hawn." Her voice was slow, low, and rich, and in some wonder he half unconsciously repeated the unusual name. "Where do you live?" "Down the road a piece 'bout a whoop an' a holler." "What? Oh, I see."
As I am working hard on this design and see that I must in the first place acquire Greek, I have decided to study for some months under a Greek teacher, a real Greek, no, twice a Greek, always hungry, who charges an immoderate fee for his lessons. Farewell. London, 24 January
A little later a great black piece of it came tossing out of the chimney above, to the affright of little Miss Brown, teacher of Literature, who was walking in the grounds, and who ran to the principal's room with the story that the chimney was afire.
Meantime, Paul, the Apostle, must show due reverence to the halting and dull disciple. He must and will make no demand upon him on the grounds of what he, Paul, believes. He is where he is, and God is his teacher. To his own Master, that is, Paul's Master, and not Paul, he stands. He leaves him to the company of his Master. "Leaves him?"
"I had no trouble until your boys came," retorted Esther, losing her temper a little, "and I believe that if you were willing to co-operate with me that I could govern them." "Well, you see," said Mr. Cropper easily, "when I send my boys to school I naturally expect that the teacher will be capable of doing the work she has been hired to do."
"I don't see any more show of anybody in this party drawing a low number than I see hope for a man who stands up to one of the swindles in the gambling-tents over there." "Still," argued Milo Strong, the Iowa teacher, "we've got just the same chance as anybody out of the forty thousand. I don't suppose there's any question that the drawing will be fair?"
It is they who should solve this problem for the teacher by having a good available home provided in advance. Much has been said and written in regard to what is generally known as the "consolidation of schools."
Man, in so far as he is man, is good; but, like the tyrant described by Plato, who was, he too, a teacher of grace, man carries in his bosom a thousand monsters, which the worship of justice and science, music and gymnastics, all the graces of opportunity and condition, must cause him to overcome.
So, too, an unfortunate publicity given to child prodigies brought with it for a short time an epidemic of forced intellectual feeding of children, that produced only a precocious neurasthenia as its great result. Similarly the Montessori method of child training which made every woman into a kindergarten teacher did a hundred times more harm than good, despite the merits of the system.
If there is any teacher who dominates Russian thought and Russian affairs to-day, it is Tolstoy. And from whom did Tolstoy learn more than from that conserver of the pristine and dominating Russian traits, the moujik?
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