MEN & WOMEN TEACHERS.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXXIX, Issue 6335, 1 May 1923, Page 8

MEN & WOMEN TEACHERS.

The greatest difference between masters and women teachers (says a correspondent in the Daily Mail) is that the latter are much more conscientious, and they expect their pupils to be so as well. Most masters take up this position: -If you want to do the work, do it and I will correct it for you. If you don’t want to do it, I don’t mind —it will .save me a lot of trouble. You know whether you ought to do it or not-” 1 .

Masters appeal to the common sense, but women teachers try to appeal to the emotions. With them it is not a case of whether or not you want to do a thing, but whether (in their opinion) it must be done. My instructress says: “ When I teach you I want you to do it (shorthand) well. I like my students to get on quickly.” If one does anything wrong, a master may say: “Whatever are those hieroglyphics? Why, anyone outside a lunatic asylum ought to be able to do that!”

Does an instructress say anything like this? Not she. She says: “My dear boy, what are you doing?” Or if it is near tea time: “That’s all wrong, my boy.V My instructress pays much more altentic-n to detail than a master would She looks upon everything si real and not merely a convention. In contrast, I remember a master who used to say: “There is nothing that must be done.”