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appointed committees superintend all the schools , and all the teachers are supplied from the Normal school . This establishment for the education of future masters of elementary schools , " says Mr . James " I have ev ery reason to believe , is conducted with the most scrupulous care . It is provided for at a
very considerable expense by the State , and I know that the most particular attention is directed towards maturing" the judgment , and confirming , directing , and cultivating the moral feeling of those who are destined to form the hearts and understandings of the people . " —p . 85 .
This is indeed an important part of national education ; perhaps in establishing' any system of the kind , one of the greatest difficulties would be to find efficient teachers . " The harvest is plenteous , but the labourers are few . " Good training will do much towards preparing educators such as are needed , but it cannot do all . A teacher should have that peculiar aptitude for his work which makes him love it — which makes the
society of infancy , and childhood , and youth , delightful to him —the sight of their growing intelligence his pleasure—and the endeavour to direct and forward its progress the occupation he chooses beyond all others . It is a peculiar temperament ; as much so as that which leads to any other taste . Without
either acquired or natural capability , how many an ignorant pretender has lightly undertaken that work which the wisest would tremble to begin ! how many a fine intellect has by such been crushed ! how many a sensitive and delicate nature has been distorted ! The individuals best fitted for teachers , ought to be selected while yet young , and set apart , and trained so
as to prepare them to fulfil their important duties as perfectly as possible ; but sucli a course is not to be looked for yet . It is a grand improvement to educate the educators . Dr . Bryce of Belfast , in one of his excellent lectures on education , delivered in London last summer , mentioned a circumstance which illustrated the importance , to a teacher , of a knowledge of the human mind , and an insight into individual character . At a public examination of a school , in which the visitors were allowed to put questions to the children , a lady was present who had been trained by him for a teacher . It occasionall y happened that the children were puzzled and unable to answer . On these occasions Dr . Bryce applied to this lady to explain
where the difficulty lay . She never failed to point it out ; the proof being , that the questioner , by following her advice as to how to proceed with the examination , found that the stumblingblock was removed , and the right answer speedily given . Mr . James is perfectly aware how much any system of education is
dependent on the teachers . ** The method of instruction , and the ^ euerid discipline of tlu school , though very strictly hud down by hnv , still depends greatly
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32 The Educational Institutions of Germany .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1836, page 32, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2653/page/32/
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