Qualities of Faithful Teachers
Do WE find the teachers intelligent, serious, diligent in their preparation for their work; meek, anxious to learn as a privilege, but willing to teach as a duty; giving evidence that they feel how sacred and important is the trust they have assumed; availing themselves of every means of improvement; giving themselves completely up to the business of teaching, so far as a faithful discharge of duty requires it; punctual and steady in their attendance at school, and on such meetings as are profitable to themselves and conducive to the prosperity of the cause. Do they maintain towards each other, on all occasions and in all circumstances, a spirit of kindness, forbearance and confidence; discarding envyings, jealousies, evil surmisings and desires of personal fame or credit; giving courteous consideration to the views and opinions of others; maintaining with Christian mildness what one believes to be right, without endeavoring for the sake of reputation or triumph to show another to be wrong; and thus securing that harmony of feeling, and unity of purpose, without which any co-operation must be perplexing, feeble, and fruitless?—Sel.