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Updated: May 19, 2025
This is a common fact in our American life. By our high schools the daughters of plain workingmen are raised to a state of intellectual culture which seems to make the disposition of them in any kind of industrial calling a difficult one. They all want to teach school, and schoolteaching, consequently, is an overcrowded profession, and, failing that, there is only millinery and dressmaking.
No municipality in the world has ever erected and completed so good a school the taxpayers would not allow it. Into our schoolteaching go the cheese-paring policies of the average villager. In truth, George Bernard Shaw avers that we are a nation of villagers. The big deeds of the world are always done by individuals. One-man power is the only thing that counts.
I was paid thousands in experience for that first schoolteaching, but I paid all the money I got from it two hundred and forty thirteen-mile-a-day dollars to learn one thing I could not learn from the books, that it takes less wisdom to make money, than it does to intelligently handle it afterwards.
Thoreau had tried schoolteaching, but he had to give up his position because he would not exercise the birch and ferule. "If the scholars once find out the teacher is not goin' to sting 'em up when they need it, that is an end to the skule," said one of the directors, and he spat violently at a fly, ten feet away. The others agreeing with him, Thoreau was asked to resign.
The Irish schoolmasters glided easily from taking charge of the school into taking charge of our municipal affairs for a consideration and their younger brothers, their cousins, their uncles and their aunts, found jobs yawning for them as soon as they had pushed past the gates of Castle Garden. One year of schoolteaching in New York City, and A. T. Stewart reached his majority.
Then he strode toward the door. "How thick is Sally Bent with this schoolteaching gent?" asked Riley Sinclair of Mason. "I dunno. Nobody knows. Sally keeps her thinking to herself." Larsen kicked open the door and at the same moment drew his six-shooter. That example was also imitated by the rest, with the exception of Riley Sinclair. He hung in the background, watching. "Gaspar!" called Larsen.
For years I kept a faded, tear-spattered, yellow note for $240, "due at corncutting," as a souvenir of my first schoolteaching. Deacon K has gone from earth. He has gone to his eternal reward. I scarcely know whether to look up or down as I say that. He never left any forwarding address.
Cosimo the Second, Grand Duke of Tuscany, had intimated that Florence would give the great astronomer a welcome. Galileo moved to Florence under the protection of Cosimo, intending to devote all his time to Science. In giving up schoolteaching and popular lecturing, Galileo really made a virtue of necessity.
College education was not for that goodly brood a living was the first thing, so after a good drilling in the three R's, Thomas Huxley was apprenticed to a pharmacist who paid him six shillings a week, a sum that the boy conscientiously gave to his mother. Oh, if in our schoolteaching we could only teach this one thing: a great thirst for knowledge!
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