Part 4 (1/2)

We mumble and mutter what should come out clearly and distinctly; we speak with a nasal drawl, or in a sharp key that sets all the finer chords of syiven us as is needed to express in the faintest way our most imperative wants, and indolently leave all the rest of its untold and exquisite resources to go to waste

Mrs Siddons once ht and unconsciously drop his goods upon the counter, simply by the tone in which, by way of experiloves Undoubtedly Mrs Siddons had natural gifts of voice which do not belong to every one But a great part of the wonderful fascination which she and the other members of that remarkable family exerted, was due to cultivation

If ospel, and others who undertake to influence the ive this reatly to their own advantage and that of others The manner in which the words of eternal life are read and uttered from the pulpit is often such as to kill all vitality out of theian, and that his serhts The influence which they are to exert upon the people, is largely dependent upon the voice which gives them utterance A competent teacher of elocution is quite as iical se our senored

XII

EYES

I have spoken much of blackboards, maps, pictorial cards, natural objects, and apparatus of various kinds, as a which he wants ood pair of eyes are to the teacher, in the government of his school, worth more than the rod, more than any syste in after school,to parents, suspension, or expulsion, , premiums, and bribes in any shape or to any aovernovern on in his little kingdoe he needs a pair of eyes

Most teachers, it is true, seem to be furnished with this article But it is in appearance only They have so in the upper part of the face which looks like eyes, but every one knows that appearances are deceiving They look over a school or an asseoing on wrong all around therope about in a dark roo about, but they have no power of seeing distinctly any one object It is a how little some people see, who seem to have eyes

The fact is, there is an entirelythe eyes open, and seeing, are two distinct things Infants have their eyes open, but they do not see anything, in the sense in which that word is generally used Light co panorama of external nature passes before thenizes and individualizes objects, is so more than a mere passive, bodily sensation It is aitself into consciousness, and putting forth its powers into voluntary and self-deter in the history of childhood isof the htens up when the little stranger first begins actually to see things

The misfortune with many people is, that in this et beyond the condition of infancy They go along the street, or they move about in a roo nothing A teacher of this kind, noon before his in the s

The difference between teachers in this faculty of seeing things is more marked probably than in any other quality that a man can have Two teachers may stand before the saeneral disorder and noise throughout, being unable to identify any scholar in particular as transgressing The other will notice that John is talking, that Ja on the desk with his fingers, that Andrew iscaricatures on his slate, and so on

To have this power of seeing things, it is not necessary that one should be sly, or should use stealth of any kind Knowledge gained by such mean practices never amounts to much, and always lowers a teacher in the esti him

Whatever a teacher does in the way of observation of his scholars, should be done openly and aboveboard And after all, more can be seen in this way, by one who kno, than by any of the stealthy practices usually resorted to Darting the eyes about rapidly in one direction and another, is not a good way tois accoan, as by mental activity

The man's mind must be awake This in fact is the secret of the whole matter The more the face and eyes are quiet, and theis rather a an is necessary to its accoood observer, one hly wide aithin

XIII

ERRORS OF THE CAVE

Improvement comes by comparison One of the most profound observations of Bacon is that in which he re influence of solitariness upon the human faculties The ht and action as in a cave, having no consort with his fellows, evolving all his plans froitation, must be more than huoted

A like result, but not so aggravated, is produced, when a ht and action to those of his own special calling or profession; when the les only with merchants and knows onlyand books; when thehour and every active exercise of thought upon his healing art; when anya reater and nobler than he can possibly be in being merely a merchant, or teacher, or doctor, or lawyer, or the possessor of any other one special art or faculty

It is true, indeed, that in order to attain to eies to that one thing; and he ht and study But no department of action is isolated No interest is unconnected with other interests No truth stands alone, but forreat system of truth Study or action, therefore, which is entirely isolated, o occasionally out of his own sphere in order fully to understand those very things hich he is es, if he would hope fully to understand his own A es uist The only way to understand arithebra A parent who has only one child, and who gives his entire and exclusive attention to the study of that child, in order that heof its nature and disposition, be better able to teach and train it, will not be so likely to attain his object as he would if he were to spend a portion of his ti acquainted with childhood generally A teacher who should shut hi to it everyhours, would not be likely to benefit so largely his own pupils, as if he were to spend a portion of his ti other le freely with those of his own profession, and get all the benefit to be derived from observation of the views and methods of other teachers, but should stop there, would not yet obtain that broad, co, and of the duties of his own particular school-rooht have if he would travel occasionally beyond the walk of books and pedagogy, and become acquainted with the views and methods of men in other spheres of life, with merchants, lawyers, and doctors, with far with those outside of our own little specialty that we are disenthralled froe produced in the ious denominations, when by any means they are thrown ether in souht out to a different point of view, the relative e in their estimation! The points in which Christians differ becoree becoer The little stone at the er hides the mountain in the distance

Let the teacher, the merchant, the ion even, still remember that he is a man, and that he can never reach a full and just esti outside of it and placing himself in the position of other men

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MEN OF ONE IDEA