Article September 6, 1930 Issue

Signs of the Times

with contributions from William P. McKenzie, Lewis L. Fawsett

[From the Educational Page in The Christian Science Monitor, Boston, Massachusetts]

The highest reward will always come to the teacher who cares most wisely for the spiritual growth of his pupils. If in any country the teaching profession fails to progress, or to secure its rightful place in the community, one may feel sure that it has forgotten that, as a former headmaster of Eton has written, if a boy is not daily coming to know God, the whole process is a failure. Striving to emphasize this fact before an audience of London teachers, Stanley Baldwin, when Premier of Britain, quoted these words from D'Arcy Thompson's "Day Dreams of a Schoolmaster":

"Enlightened by the experience of fatherhood, they [the former pupils] will see with a clear remembrance firmness in dealing with their moral faults or patience in dealing with their intellectual weakness, and calling to mind the old schoolroom, they will think 'It was good for us to be there.' For unknown to us there were therein three tabernacles—one for us, one for our schoolmaster, and one for him who is the friend of all children, and the Master of all schoolmasters."

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