Manual Training High School - Prospect Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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THE FACULTY

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The Faculty KAN IMITATION OF D12 QUINCYQ What is to be thought of them? W'hat is to be thought of the teachers of Manual Training High School, that-like the teachers in public school, also-brought suddenly into our minds, into our hearts, tortured with lessons, into our souls, into our beings, the realization of how cruel the world is? The teachers in public school paved the path of our edu- cation with torment-heart-breaking torment-such as no man can deny was awfully cruel. But so did the teachers of Manual, if we regard them as they were regarded by those who hate lessons. Fond parents bore witness to- public- school teachers as no easy marks, but so they did to the high-school teachers. judged by all who saw them from a station of righteous indignation, both were found harsh and oppressive to any who had to submit to their high-handed tyranny. Teachers they were that made the quarrels be- tween the members of our families. The grammar-school teachers rose to the rank of oppressors and absolute Amon- archs, both personal and public, that rang through the records of scholastic history and became a by-word amongst angry students for years, until they entered the high-school. The great, wise teachers of Manual, in the same manner, gained for themselves that name of tyrants, which was not undeserved. They never gave us a rest from our labors, as rewards for well-prepared lessons. They allowed us not to the festal dances in the city, which celebrated in triumph the freedom of school boys and girls. No! for their desire to oppress us was too keen! No! for their hard hearts would not let them! Poor, cross, hard-hearted teachers, whom, from our earliest youth, we ever believed in as folks to be feared. This was amongst our strongest feelings as children, that never once, no, not for a moment of remorse did they revel in the sight of our pleasures and the glories of our achievements. Coronets for you? Oh, no-honors, if they come, when we get ready to give them, are for those who come after you. Teachers of Manual, when the kind- ness of your souls shall be aroused, we will be graduated and gone! Call us back, O blinded teachers, but we will not listen to you! It is not and shortcoz We venture the fact tha appeared in that this coi of the discr book. It ha