isa-normaladvance-1914-00205

Description: THE NORMAL ADVANCE205it home to dinner and all the world is put right
again.Have I enlarged the truth? For some per¬
haps, but to the timid little child, all this is
true and more. The first day of school is a>
critical event and it may prove a tragedy un¬
less she who rules in this strange new world
knows the heart of a little child. The school
is such a strange world with everything so big
and new that the little child must grope to
find its way through. Just one harsh word,
just one cross look, and the joy of the universeis shut out, and it will take months for the lit¬
tle child to come into harmony with its new
life. But if the teacher has love in her heart
for little children, if she understands child
nature, and if she has tact, she may establish
the child in its new relation immediately and
thus the great tragedy of the first day of school
may be averted.They might not need me—yet they might,
Ill let my heart be just in sight.
A smile so small as mine might be
Precisely their necessity.And what is Divine Law to a man? To
hold fast that which is his own, and to claim
nothing that is anothers
to use what is given
him, and not to covet what is not given
to
yield up easily and willingly what is taken
away, giving thanks for the time that he has
had it at his service.
Source: http://indstate.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/isuarchive/id/32669
Collection: Indiana State University Archives

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