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Title: The Philosophy of Teaching
The Teacher, The Pupil, The School

Author: Nathaniel Sands

Release Date: October 20, 2009 [EBook #30296]

Language: English

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_The Philosophy of Teaching._

THE TEACHER,
THE PUPIL, THE SCHOOL.

BY
NATHANIEL SANDS.

_NEW YORK_:
HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS,
FRANKLIN SQUARE.
1869.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1869, by

HARPER & BROTHERS,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the
Southern District of New York.

_THE TEACHER, THE PUPIL, THE SCHOOL._

_TEACHER AND PUPIL._

Of the various callings to which the division of labor has caused man
specially to devote himself, there is none to be compared for nobility or
usefulness with that of the true teacher. Yet neither teachers nor people
at present realize this truth.

Among the very few lessons of value which might be derived from so-called
"classical" studies, is that of the proper estimate in which the true
teacher should be held; for among the Greeks no calling or occupation was
more honored. Yet with a strange perversity, albeit for centuries the
precious time of youth has been wasted, and the minds and morals of the
young perverted by "classical" studies, this one lesson has been
disregarded.

What duty can be more responsible, what vocation more holy, than that of
training the young in habits of industry, truthfulness, economy, and
sobriety; of giving to them that knowledge and skill without which their
lives would become a burden to themselves and to society? Yet, while the
merchant seeks to exercise the greatest caution in selecting the persons
to whom he intrusts his merchandise, and yields respect to him who
faithfully performs his comme