RANDOM REMINDER

Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31385, 2 June 1967, Page 18

RANDOM REMINDER

BRING DOWN THE CURTAIN

Teaching is not always the most rewarding of occupations, and acceptance of its hazards is seldom helped by hoary jokes about the length of the holidays. Notwithstanding the learned textbooks on child psychology, the scientific revision of the school syllabus, and advanced methods la the training of teachers, the school pupil remains the unknown, unpredictable factor in the teacher-child

About last Easter, she explained to her charges the significance and meaning of the birth of Christ. And being an enthusiastic teacher she decided to follow-up the lesson with a nativity play Aware of the difficulty she would almost certainly encounter tn any attempt to instruct her children In the use of Biblical language, she said they should use their own, everyday words. The day of the performance bore with its dawn no foreboding hint of disaster A heartening collection of parents assembled, and the play began. Everything went far better than

equation. The life of the teacher can be full of little disappointments. Imagine the chagrin of the eager young disciple of learning who had a class of tots la an east London school.

might have been expected until the main scene. There was Mary, played by a little tot of the angelic appearance confined almost entirely to television advertisements, and in the audience were her parents, feeling very elated at her appearance, and the lovely picture she made as she sat there holding the baby Jesus. Enter Joseph. Mary spoke her most memorable line. “Here, you hold him.” •he said, "He’s been a right little beggar all day.' There’s nothing like a little euphemism, when you come across an awkward aix-letter noun.