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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