The teacher in the
high school and the teacher in the primary grade hold frequent
conversations concerning each other's work, and no teacher ever loses
interest in the pupils when they advance to the next grade. To such
teachers, education is not parceled out in terms of years but is a
continuous process, even as life itself. They use the text-book merely
as a convenience, but never as a necessity. If all the text-books in the
school should be destroyed overnight, the work would proceed as usual
the next day, barring mere inconvenience. They respect themselves and
others too highly ever to assume a patronizing air toward their pupils.
On the contrary, they treat them as cooerdinates and confederates in the
noble and exhilarating game of life.
=The vitalized school.=--They have due regard to their personal
appearance, but, once they have decided for the day, they dismiss the
matter from their thinking and devote their attention to major
considerations. Neither in dress, in manner, nor in conversation do they
ever bring into the school a discordant note. School hours are not a
detached portion of life but, rather, an integral part of life, and to
them life is quite as agreeable during these hours as before and after.
Such as they cannot do otherwise than render the school vital. And when
such teachers and patrons as these join in such a benevolent conspiracy,
then shall we realize not only a typical school but the vitalized
school.
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