The Profession of the Teacher
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Excerpt from The Profession of the Teacher: An Address Delivered by William R. Abbot, Esq., Bellevue High School, Virginia; Before the National Educational Association, in Detroit, Michigan, August 4th, 1874 A few days ago, while engaged in conversation with a gentleman of no mean attainments, and most amiable character, who had for some years been engaged in teaching, I was listener to the following remark: - "A teacher´s is a dog´s life - of thankless drudgery and meagre pay. I shall enter some business, where, there is less to do and more to make." There was doubtless a fair proportion of truth in the sentiment, enough at least to give it an air of verisimilitude; and I confess for a moment to a sinking of heart, as the natural reflection forced itself upon me, that to such a vocation I had already devoted so many years, and was now committed beyond retrieval to the same dreary pathway through life. But a short time before, however, I had participated in a scene not unfamiliar, in character, to many of those before me. It was an occasion when I stood surrounded by a band of eager and happy boys, with whom, and for whom I had been laboring, striving and sympathizing during the session then just closed; and as I bestowed upon the meritorious their well-earned honors and caught the glow of honest satisfaction which o´erspread their faces at the reception of those testimonials of difficulties overcome and duty faithfully performed; and when a few minutes later I bade them farewell, to some of them for the last time, and from one or another received in the halting and embarrassed utterance of youth the expression of his grateful thanks for my efforts in his behalf, and felt that perhaps my labor had not been altogether in vain; that I might claim a share in whatever good or noble achievement they might hereafter work upon the theatre of life, or trembled at the thought that perhaps by want of patience or skill, or watchfulness, I had failed to plant good seed in the hearts and minds of others - then at least I did not fail to recognize that ours was a vocation of an importance so transcendent as to demand the most careful preparation, and employ the best powers and highest energies of a human mind - of a dignity sufficient to confer respect and consideration upon all its faithful followers, and of a responsibility so vast as to fill with anxious trembling any thoughtful worker, and make him labor, "as ever in his great taskmaster´s eye." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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