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True Education
and maintain the standing of the school, they also must consider the
highest good of their students as individuals, the duties that life will
lay on them, the service it requires, and the preparation demanded.
The work that teachers do day by day will exert an influence on their
pupils, and through them on others, that will extend and strengthen
until time shall end. They must meet the fruits of this work in that
great day when every word and deed shall be brought in review
before God.
Teachers who realize this will not feel that their work is com-
pleted when they have finished the daily routine of recitations and
their pupils go home. They will carry these children and youth
on their hearts. How to secure for them the noblest standard of
attainment will be their constant study and effort.
Aim High
Teachers who discern the opportunities and privileges of their
work will allow nothing to stand in the way of earnest endeavor for
self-improvement. They will spare no pains to reach the highest
standard of excellence. All that they desire their students to become,
they will themselves strive to be.
The deeper the sense of responsibility and the more earnest the
effort for self- improvement, the more clearly will teachers perceive
and the more keenly regret the defects that hinder their usefulness.
As they see and feel the magnitude of the work, its difficulties and
possibilities, often they will cry out, “Who is sufficient for these
things?”
Dear teachers, as you consider your need of strength and guid-
ance, I urge you to consider the promises of Him who is the wonder-
ful Counselor: “Call to Me, and I will answer you.” “I will instruct
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you and teach you in the way you should go: I will guide you with
My eye.”
Jeremiah 33:3
;
Psalm 32:8
.
As the highest preparation for your work, I point you to the
words, the life, the methods, of the Prince of teachers. Here is your
true ideal. Behold it, dwell upon it, until the Spirit of the divine
Teacher takes possession of your heart and life.