p. 25 | The Teacher's Opportunity by Timothy Dwight

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Dec 12, 1907

The Teacher's Opportunity

By Timothy Dwight

Every teacher may reflect, however humble or secluded be his station, that he has the opportunity of raising his school to an eminence. He may do his part toward elevating the standard of education, and sound a trumpet to the higher institutions to elevate theirs. No matter where his school is located, its naked walls may be decorated with simple ornaments, attractive to the eye, favorable to taste, and instructive to the mind; the arrangements may be such as to secure healthful postures and exercise, thorough instruction with necessary variety, well-tempered light, and the purest air that heaven affords. It may be the abode of harmony, happiness, and improvement. The best of friendships may be formed there; and the path which conducts to it, however stony or winding, may be associated in many a mind with recollections of childhood, and the loftiest conceptions of science, of man, and his Creator.

TIMOTHY DWIGHT.