SCHOOLMASTERS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 294, 10 December 1881, Page 1

SCHOOLMASTERS.

To the Editor of the "Evening Mail." Sir—Tour serious and jaat admonition to the Central Board of Education a few weeks ago on the subject of hoarding-money for a little interest when it might gladden the hearts of hundred and extend the benefits of training, must be appreciated by all men who lore what is just, aud whose motto is " live and let lire." See what Sharon Turner says of the class concerned:— <s Schoolmasters are chartered subjects of petty annoyance. Everyone who has been conversant, in however slight a degree, with education, knows that the daily and hourly annoyances necessarily attendant on it are such that no motive can ever thoroughly reconcile the mind to the irksome necesßiiy, The truth is that an opinion that nobody would be a schoolmaster wbo could possibly help it induces people to think that they must and will submit to baiting with every kind of indignity; and this licentiousness of insult is Btrangely exercise 3 by coddling mothers and purse-proud fathers They have only the minds and feelings of cattle drovers. In their opinion pecuniary obligation (ugbt to make only humble friends and upper (servants." Though this was written of the higher class schools in Engr.land. fifty years ago, there are many who will recognise its fitness and feel ita applicability to the institutions of the colony. I am, &c, A Teh Weeks' Schoolmaster.