Excerpt from The North Carolina Teacher, Vol. 12
He deals in mystery and strange things, but he has them all from some other boy who knows, and he is therefore all right. But when you think of what little you recollect of it, and how much you once knew, isn"t it pitiful how meagre the mystery and impressiveness that attends the organizations that men have formed?
A boy is an odd piece of furniture, but he is the ground and chief ingredient of the man. Delude not yourself with the belief that the boy is not all he pretends to be, for he is a great deal more. He is an incomprehensible fellow to any one but another boy, and because he will presently grow into the awkward between hay-and-grass period that separates boyhood from manhood, and to a lumbering idiot then, don"t signify that he is an idiot now. He never is. But his chrysalis state fetters him and makes him seem like one sometimes.
The boy is all right.
Is It Teaching?
I played the role of visitor in an intermediate department of a city school not long ago. I am well aware that one teacher is never especially delighted to see another in this character, as criticism, not always just or kind, is the general result. I do not, however, intend to pose as critic. The teacher is a popular one, and if her methods mystified me it is possibly due to my inability to comprehend. That I will leave for others to decide.
The recitation was from the second reader, the class reciting from their seats. "Who can read the first sentence?" queried the teacher. Several hands were raised and one of the brightest was called upon.
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