Excerpt from Turning Points in Teaching or Law Making and Law Breaking, in the Schoolroom
The term "teacher" is hard to define, if in fact it can be defined satisfactorily at all. If we say that a teacher is a person who is a scholar, and naturally adapted to the work of giving instruction; one capable of governing and leading others; one who has tact in management, and quick to see the needs of pupils, etc. - put all these things together, and yet we come far short of a good definition of a real teacher, because there is something in a capable teacher that is indefinable; for it does not make so much difference what a child learns as from whom he learns it. "The world is not starving for need of education half so much as for a warm interest of soul for soul;" for after all the lessons have been said, the effect that remains - that which the child holds over from his school days - will be the view he takes of life, and the way of thinking which he has gained from the teacher.
As yet we have no accurate test of a teacher"s aptitude for the work; no way of measuring the teacher"s worth but by the results of her work in leading pupils to be stronger in heart and intellect. Only those, therefore, who realize to the fullest extent the magnitude of the teacher"s work can ever expect to succeed.
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