A BISHOP’S MAXIMS

Greymouth Evening Star, 8 November 1923, Page 8

A BISHOP’S MAXIMS

ADVICE TO TEACHERS The Bishop of Norwich, in presenting the prizes at the Norwich Training College, gave from his own experience as a. schoolmaster the following advice to future teachers: — 1. Love your subject; such love is infectious. Those who work for salary alone have no enthusiasm. 2. Keep your own study fresh; he teaches best who knows more than he brings out. 3. Do not bore your pupils; teach with variety so as to carry them with yon. 4. Remember that while it is delightful to help forward the best scholars a good schoolmaster or mistress must at least as much be judged by the results of his work upon the average and the stupid pupil. 5. You cannot leave examinations out of account, but, so far as may be use them as a, stimulus and not a constricting force. G. Do not rely too far on machinery and apparatus. Dr. Westcott taught in a hay loft. Education is human. 7. The true disciplinarian is one who controls by quiet personality, like a good chairman or the leader of a party. One in control of a class should be as unruffled as in his own armchair at home. I always despised the teacher at home. I alway despised the teacher who hail to rely upon punishments. 8. Praise, and not fault-finding, is

the teacher’s best weapon. <). Value the interest of parents in their children’s progress; it is, alas! only too rare. Parents do not know how much they can contribute to the education of the country by a few loving words to their children, as to the lessons of week day and Sunday. 10. Wisely make friends of your pupils, and they will confide in you; but do not make yourself cheap. You must be Ihr-ir hero as well as their companion.