p. 16 | Save Them from Failure

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · May 17, 1910

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 37, No. 19.

Save Them from Failure.

In a circular sent out from the California Educational Board by Professor Hyatt, superintendent of public instruction, there is a good earnest word to teachers to “save children from failure.” He tells us that it is one of the most sorrowful signs of civilized life to see a child fail in school at the end of a year; that it is discouraging. He falls out of the procession; forms a habit of failing, and fails through all the years of the future; and then he declares that the wise old teachers are those who would not let their pupils fail, but gave special attention to the slow boys. It is a good word to carry out in the spiritual life as well as the educational; and yet it is a sad thing that nearly always it is the bright ones who get encouragement, and not those who are slower to learn.