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Excerpt from The Pacific School and Home Journal, Vol. 5 The greatness of a teacher's responsibilities can never be laughed down, nor belittled, nor ignored. Standing forever by the gates messenger of the gods, translating their meanings not to men, worn, grey, hard of hearing, dull of sight, but to children, young, eager, swift-footed, rapturous, keen of apprehension the - true teacher is as one chosen from a multitude, and given a sign from heaven, and so anointed and set apart forever. To feel this truth strongly will give purpose and dignity to the teacher's character. The time is coming, let us not forget, when "I am a teacher," will carry as much weight and professional meaning as, "I am a lawyer," or, "I am a physician." This is logically true, because neither law nor medicine are more a part of ultimate human development than is the profession-to-be of teaching. As the world grows wiser, the need of schools and colleges will be felt more and more; the demand for professionally trained teachers will increase. To make teaching a recognized profession, the friends of education must develop the professional feeling. Now, teachers, as a class, do not know enough of each other, or of the work which is being done in allied fields of human thought. They must link themselves more closely with the grander movements of the times. Suppose that the teachers of each county sent delegates to a State convention, where the best lecturers and teachers of national reputation were present; then, suppose that, after a week of solid work, and after even the most lagging soul had caught the march and impetus of the occasion, delegates were chosen to a great national convention, meeting each year to unify the school laws of the States and the text-book systems, to brighten knowledge, and to strengthen relationship. Then, too, there are social science associations both in the United States and in Europe, and earnest meetings of geologists, philologists, and student-masters of every sort. Shall not the common-school teachers of America send delegates to each of these great convocations? Will they wait until new knowledge has drifted into text-books, or will they take it as it falls fresh and glowing from the lips of the leaders of human thought? The movement to-day is toward unification, and a thorough organizing of human forces into compact battalions. The teacher of the future is to have a professional training as long, as costly, and as arduous as that required for lawyer, physician, or minister. He will feel himself allied with an influence social, moral, and intellectual, which is everywhere known and respected. His diploma, once won, will pass current in every civilized community. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.