The Profession of the Teacher: An Address Delivered by William R. Abbot ... Before the National Education Association in Detroit, Michigan, August 4th, 1874, Volume 102

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Charles Hamilton, 1874 - Teaching - 22 pages

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Page 6 - HIGH on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus and of Ind, Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold...
Page 11 - Behold a sower went forth to sow : And when he sowed, some seeds fell by the wayside, and the fowls came and devoured them up : Some fell upon stony places, where they had not much earth ; and forthwith they sprung up, because they had no deepness of earth: And when the sun was up, they were scorched ; and because they had no root, they withered away.
Page 17 - Secondly, others who are able use it only as a passage to better preferment, to patch the rents in their present fortune till they can provide a new one, and betake themselves to some more gainful calling.
Page 8 - They say nay in a word, but they do so in deed ; for to the one they will gladly give a stipend of two hundred crowns by the year, and loth to offer to the other two hundred shillings. God that sitteth in heaven laugheth their choice to scorn, and rewardeth their liberality as it should. For he suffereth them to...
Page 8 - ... shillings. God that sitteth in heaven laugheth their choice to scorn, and rewardeth their liberality as it should, for he suffereth them to have tame and wellordered horses, but wild and unfortunate children, and therefore in the end they find more pleasure in their horse than comfort in their children.
Page 11 - It is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and cast into his garden; and it grew, and waxed 3c great tree; and the fowls of the air lodged in the branches of it.
Page 6 - ... the wealth of Ormus and of Ind — or where the gorgeous East, with richest hand, showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold," to be compared with the priceless treasures committed to our keeping.
Page 19 - And thus God mouldeth some for a schoolmaster's life, undertaking it with desire and delight, and discharging it with dexterity and happy success. He studieth his scholars' natures as carefully as they their books ; and ranks their dispositions into several forms. And though it may seem difficult for him in a great school to descend to all particulars, yet experienced schoolmasters may quickly make a grammar of boys...
Page 18 - ... a contempt for the information itself, which he sees possessed by a man whom he feels nevertheless to be far below him. Another will fancy himself as much above nearly all the world as he feels he is above his own tutor ; and will become self-sufficient and scornful. A third will believe it to be his duty, as a point of humility, to bring himself down intellectually to a level with one whom he feels bound to reverence, and thus there have been instances, where the veneration of a young man of...
Page 8 - ... in halls where a nation's fate is arbitrated, or solving some of the mightiest problems that belong to this wonderful universe ; — and others still, there are, who, by daily and nightly contemplation of the laws of God, have kindled that fire of divine truth within their bosoms, by which they become those mortal luminaries whose light shineth from one part of the heavens unto the other.

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