University of Nebraska Kearney - Blue and Gold Yearbook (Kearney, NE)

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f The nature of the genuine teacher is perennial In the seventeenth cen- tury, Thomas Fuller created The Good Schoolmaster, whose characteristics resemble the traits of our twentieth-century faculty. A representative Kearney instructor is modern pedagogically, and yet he is not unlike Fuller's model, for his genius inclines him with delight to his profession; he studies his scholars' natures as carefully as they their books ; and he is moderate in inflicting deserved correction. Moreover, he does not present the muses in Ihe shapes of fiends and furies, for he wished youth to love them. With psychology as his guide he is able, diligent, and methodical in his teaching, p not leading them (the students) rather in a circle than forwards. His educa- tional aim, like that of Fuller's ideal, is democratic, and out of his school, he is no whit pedantical in carriage or discourse; contenting himself to be rich in learning, though he doth not jingle with it in every company wherein he comes, In short, our faculty members convince us that Fuller was right when he said, God moldeth some for a schoolmaster's life, undertaking it with desire and delight, and discharging it with dexterity and happy success. f He was no peddlar of mere facts, Nor such a person as exacts A given grade to make a class The best, or let a pupil pass. He is no seeker after grinds. Nor maker of tired, slavish minds By work, and thought, and word, and pen, His wonted task was building men. —Clarence E. Flynn. I Page 21