School Inspectors.
1 It seems to me that above all men a school inspector should be nnst kindly, considerate and even-tempered. What a lot. of highly nerrous little organisms he has to deil with — sensitise little creatures, male and female, who regaid. j him almost as a kind of divinity, and I literally tremble at nis nod. I should like to know what chance a chili has of contending with a stern, ill-tempered inspector. Children must quail before such a one, and their little wits scatter m all directions. Harshness crushes the tender intellect, kindness expands it. For God's sake inspectors, be merciful to the children ; help the little things aloug ; one kind word will do more with them than a whole page of abuse. As a sample of the length some inspectors go, I beard of one the other day, who deliberately " plucked" a bay who had pluekily answered sis qusstion* but who boggled at the, seventh. . And what O 1 my readers, do you thinkiihit seventh w-is ? Why '* Where did tha river Nile take its rise.' Shades of Spoke and Jjivia;|BtOQe, and * Maago. Park and others who sorely traVelle4 |o find that " rise/ support that boy, acid hauut the inspector. i
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Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 169, 22 June 1883, Page 2
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203School Inspectors. Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 169, 22 June 1883, Page 2
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