e does, he must still, until
they do so regard it, bow to their authority; and every magistrate, who
takes an enlarged and comprehensive view of his duties as the executive
of a republican community, will do this without any humiliating feelings
of submission to unauthorized interference with his plans. He will, on
the other hand, enjoy the satisfaction of feeling that he confines
himself to his proper sphere, and leave to others, the full possession
of rights which properly pertain to them.

It is so with every case, where the relation of employer and employed
subsists. You engage a carpenter to erect a house for you, and you
present your plan; instead of going to work and executing your orders
according to your wishes, he goes to criticising and condemning it: he
finds fault with this, and ridicules that, and tells you, you ought to
make such and such an alteration in it. It is perfectly right for him to
give his opinion, in the tone and spirit of _recommendation or
suggestion_, with a distinct understanding that with his employer rests
the power and the right to decide. But how many teachers take possession
of their school room as though it was an empire in which they are
supreme, who resist every interference of their employers, as they would
an attack upon their personal freedom, and who feel, that in regard to
every thing connected with school, they have really no actual
responsibility.

In most cases, the employers, knowing how sensitive teachers very
frequently are on this point, acquiesce in it, and leave them to
themselves. Whenever in any case, they think that the state of the
school requires their interference, they come cautiously and fearfully
to the teacher, as if they were encroaching upon his rights, instead of
advancing with the confidence and directness with which employers have
always a right to approach the employed; and the teacher, with the view
he has insensibly taken of the subject, being perhaps confirmed by the
tone and manner which his employers use, makes the conversation, quite
as often, an occasion of resentment and offence as of improvement. He is
silent, perhaps, but in his heart he accuses his committee or his
trustees of improper interference in _his_ concerns, as though it was no
part of _their_ business to look after work which is going forward for
their advantage, and for which they pay.

Perhaps some individuals, who have had some collision with their
trustees or committee, will