School-Room Helps for Teachers and Parents (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from School-Room Helps for Teachers and Parents After thirty-five years of active service in the schoolroom, the writer has thought it befitting to crown his work with a book giving some of his experiences to the public. This is not done for the purpose of exploding some theory or saying some "wise" things, but merely to give some one who may wish to read them, the writer's varied experience in the schoolroom. One generation profits by the successes and failures of another, the son profits by the fortunes and misfortunes of the father. Each generation, each race, each son gets its first lessons or his first lessons from the one that precedes. Too, the author has two other purposes for sending this little book out to the public: One is that it may be a means of dropping a word here and there that may help some struggling young person to become a more acceptable teacher, the other is that some contribution to school literature may be made by the Negro teachers of Texas. This book is not sent out to proclaim that the writer was a great teacher, nor that he was a great success, but rather to say something which, we hope, may encourage and stimulate a struggling brother or sister in the work of teaching. In our treatment of this subject, we shall attempt to be original, therefore we do not aim to follow old, beaten paths in the discussion of it, but we ask our readers to grant us special privileges in the execution of the book, and to look with no critical eye upon any departure from the usual custom of writers of School Government, for we are impressed that conditions which have influenced us during our work in various schools of the race, have been such as to call forth circumstances very peculiar and especially characteristic of Negro schools. In all the vocations in life, there are men and women who have made their way up the hill of fame or have achieved whatever success that has come to them, by dint of effort and not by fortune nor by accident. It is said that some people acquire fortune by inheritance, some, by having fortune thrust upon them, others, by hard work. The writer is, if anything at all, a humble representative of the latter class who has made his own way by his own efforts. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.