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Title: The world's opportunities and how to use them
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Guernsey, Alfred H. (Alfred Hudson), 1824-1902
Subjects: Industries
Publisher: New York, Harper & brothers
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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family stands thecommon school, in the importance of its influence upon the train-ing of the young. A good school may, indeed, do much towardsmitigating the evils of a faulty home, while a bad school will domuch to thwart the salutary influence of the best home; andwithout a good teacher there can be no good school. The State is in a wide sense the guardian of all its children.But the State can only, in exceptional cases, interfere with homearrangements. Unless the parents are grossly and notoriouslyunfit, the State must leave their children under their own unre-stricted control. For this there is perhaps no remedy. TheState cannot see to it that there shall be no unfit parents; butit can and should see to it that there are no unfit teachers—none who are unfit for the office by reason either of want ofcharacter, or by want of capacity and attainments. And, exceptin the rarest instances, good teachers cannot be had withoutpaying them a proper salary. It is sometimes said that public-
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MAIN ENTRANCE TO THE CATHEDRAL, SEVILLE.See Note 18. THE PROFESSIONS. 287 school teachers get all they are worth. This we do not holdto be true. But, if it were true, so much greater would be theurgency that teachers should be made worthy of far better pay-ment than they usually receive, and should receive all they areworth. Public schools should attract to themselves not a littleof the best talent of the community. For high success as a teacher, capacities are required fullyequal to those demanded in either of the other professions.The teacher must, of course, be master of the science whichhe proposes to impart; and, as all sciences are progressive, hemust keep fully up with the general movement. The instructorwho should to-day undertake to teach any one of the sciences ashe learned it while a student, would soon find himself the laugh-ing-stock of his pupils. The successful teacher must be a dili-gent student; and so interwoven are all branches of knowledge,that it is not enough for

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