Fundamentals in Education, Art And Civics; Essays And Addresses
Fundamentals in Education, Art And Civics; Essays And Addresses
George Lansing Raymond
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General Sherman used to say that war was hell. No soldier thinks it heav- enly; and to none of us who have fought the good fight of teaching, does the occupation suggest either the largeness or the rest of that adjective. Most of our lives have been spent in doing very small things in a very wearying way, scattering, like a farmer, the winnowings of straw in exceed- ingly barren-looking furrows, and hoping that Providence would do something with them. But Providence seems mainly bent upon doing... some- thing with ourselves, usually measuring out the de- gree of our success, like that of the great Teacher, by the degree of our own self -development. Who- ever is to lead others to high standards must him- * Delivered before the National Association of Elocutionists, Boston, Jane 24-29, 1895, and printed in its records. Digitized by Google 164 EDUCATION, ART AND CIVICS self have reached them first If so, he is likely to be tempted by the devil from the top of a moder- ately high momitain. After an outlook and a draft from the spring that is there, it is not easy to go back to the marshes — sometimes, too, in the valley of humiliation — and wait, and point, and draw, and shove till lazy feet have jumped the ditches.
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