THE RISING GENERATION 



sible economy that is true economy. I 

 would, however, rather save in any other 

 way than in the salaries of the public 

 servants who teach our boys and girls. Let 

 us give them at least a reasonable, and 

 when possible, a liberal living. 



There should be greater permanency in 

 teachers 7 tenure, greater incentive for the 

 man or the woman who goes into teaching 

 to keep at it until his or her active years 

 end. Permanency in the profession is the 

 rule on the continent and in England, as it 

 formerly was in the United States. You 

 have in many a story the beautiful picture 

 of the gray-headed schoolmaster whose 

 teaching reached through three generations 

 of people who had felt the influence of his 

 mind, the sweetness of his heart, and some of 

 them the hardness of his birch. Few teach- 

 ing careers in American life today are of 

 that sort. 



Often when teachers are permanent in the 

 profession, they too readily shift the places 

 of their labor. Teachers' bureaus are at 

 fault in this. If there is a town yonder 



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