I learned my lesson. It has stayed with me through all
_ the years of my school teaching.
Some years ago, in visiting with a teacher in a class-
ical school in an eastern city, he said: "We have no
poor students in this school, all rank high in scholarship.
We sometimes get in some poor ones, but we drive them
out by piling on the work till they are glad to get out"
Was he a teacher f



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Not long ago in conversation with a teacher from one
of the large high schools of a city in the Central West,
he said: "I like my work in the large city school. The
scholars come into my room for recitations; if they are
are prepared, all right; if not, I flunk them. At th«
hour for closing in the afternoon, I lock my door and go
home, I don't have to know a single one of them nor care
anything about them except their lessons in the recita-
tion. Oh yes, I like the large city work, I would not
go back to a high school in a small city for anything.
