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THEORY AND PRACTICE

OF

TEACHING.

CHAPTER I.

SPIRIT OF THE TEACHER.

PERHAPS the very first question that the honest individual will ask himself, as he proposes to assume the teacher's office, or to enter upon a preparation for it, will be-"What manner of spirit am I of?" No question can be more important. I would by no means undervalue that degree of natural talent-of mental power, which all justly consider so desirable in the candidate for the teacher's office. But the true spirit of the teacher, a spirit that seeks not alone pecuniary emolument, but desires to be in the highest degree useful to those who are to be taught; a spirit that elevates above every thing else the nature and capabilities of the human soul, and that trembles under the responsibility of attempting to be its educator; a spirit that looks upon gold as the contemptible dross of earth, when compared with that imperishable gem which is to be polished and brought out into heaven's light to shine forever; a spirit that scorns all the rewards of

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