Three Rivers High School - Reflector Yearbook (Three Rivers, MI)

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room, laughing when there is reason, but quiet and attentive at other times. When work must be done outside of school, he does it, but also finds time for the ball game or some other form of rec- reation. So summed up in a few words, we may say An ideal stu- dent is the student who works when he should work and plays when it is play time. Why then can't we all be ideal students? -Miss Dozvling. AN IDEAL Out of the clear blue TEACHER sky came this thunder- bolt, write an article for the Annual on the Ideal Teacher. An Ideal Teacher! Why not write on A Round Square, or on An Educated Rhyme, or a Sweet Lemonn? Immediately, one takes in re- view all the memories and ghosts of bygone instructors. The pro- fessors of ample girth who proved that a man's heart is in his stomach. The small, slender ones that were thin because of dys- pepsia for learningl. The lady teachers that trip through our lives, on their way from the University Station to the Matrimonial Depot , The few patient ones that teach because they began that way and don't know how to stop. From among these we must pick out our ideal of a perfect teacher. Shall our ideal be masculine or feminine? In this day of privi- leged woman, the latter of course. Shall she be pretty or stylish, learned or magnetic? If pretty, she must be in the low grade work, where little children learn as they admire and imitate. l 94 lf stylish, what an influence she has over the habits as well as the intellect of the coming manf' and she will find praise in the imitation of all the young girls, or flappers. If she be intellectual, she must be a genius at imparting her culture, as the human race, in all its ages, resents being taught by note. In the magnetism of the teacher, probably lies her greatest power. One's mind turns instinctively to the most successful and the best loved. They are not always the youngest or prettiest but their in- fluence is greater than they know, and its impressions last forever. Thus, an ideal teacher must vary according to the grade of work. For High School students one would probably suggest a University Graduate, whose en- thusiasm has not been allowed to cool, whose life is an example of Christianity that all must admire, with a generous forbearance for all pranks and small sins com- mitted before her eyes. In each student, she will find some qualities to admire, because she is looking for them. She will enter into the sports of the students with enthusiasm, but will deal out justice even to the ath- letes. She studies her pupils, and treats them as individuals, not as a mass. She invents new ways of teaching each pupil to know himself. Of an Ideal Mother, we all boast, for an Ideal Life we all hope: and proudly claim that the Three Rivers High School can boast of that almost unknown quantity-AN IDEAL TEACHER. 4Amy Dunckle, '19. l

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