Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: but nothing is of greater advantage than a brain well balanced. If you are greatly lacking in any of these parts, ‘you would better seek some other employment, as the experience necessary to improve you will be at the expense of your pupils and patrons and a constant source of vexation to yourself. If every teacher would look in upon himself, and when he finds that he is not f1tted for the place he occupies, would step down and out and enter some other profession or adopt some other employment, the condition of our schools would soon improve rapidly. III. PHYSICAL QUALIFICATIONS The teacher must have good health. The schoolroom is not a proper place for an invalid. It is often the case that persons who are, from some physical defect, unfitted for occupations requiring manual labor enter the teaching profession, hoping thus to make a living. Again, many enter the profession with good constitutions, to retire from it in a few years with impaired health and seek some other occupation from which they hope to regain their lost vitality. The former should not and the latter need not be the case. No man who, from physical reasons, is unable to work should make this an excuse for teaching school. If he has the proper mental qualifications and good health, though he may lack a limb or the use of one, yet he is capable of teaching school. If the teacher understands and practices the laws of health, he may live as long and enjoyas good health as in any other occupation. There is not space in a treatise of this kind for a full discussion of the question of hygiene. A few suggestions, however, will not be out of place: A man may follow some out-of-door occupation, being possessed of a robust constitution, and live and enjoy excellent health for years, and never take a thought about th…
