chairs that allow their occupant to devote himself entirely to scholarly research and to prepar-ing the lectures that form the nucleus of books and learned works. Such a position may exist among us, but only, I believe, in a truncated form.

As for the remedy for the teacher's condition, I summarize it as follows:

First: the establishment of suffi-cient institutes for training men and women teachers, some for higher instruction and others for primary. Teaching would then become a respected profession requiring preparation, and its road would be barred to the amateurs who resort to it when all other doors of employment are closed in their faces.

Second: the launching of a reform movement of broad scope in our schools — a reform that would take up the overloaded curricula which exhaust pupil and teacher alike, put an end to sectarian and political partisanship, institute real rather than nominal inspection and supervision over schools of divergent tendencies, raise the teacher's standing, and remove the incompetent from the institutes of instruction.

And while I counsel the teacher to be patient and to await the mending of his condition, I warn him against two things:

First, that the profession should get the mastery of him and its disease take possession of him, so that he thinks himself a teacher at all times and takes to advising,

guiding, and disputing whenever he finds himself in a gathering of people. Oscar Wilde, whenever he saw a teacher, would flee from him, calling on God for refuge, for fear the man would deliver him a sermon.

Second, that ill-humor and short-ness of temper should overcome him from the strain his nerves suffer in the classrooms. The cure for this, perhaps, is to divert himself with some of the arts in his hours of leisure, to keep up his reading, and to mix much with people, lest he be overtaken by the stagnation that threatens those given over to mechanical work — this on condi-tion that he have courage enough to demand that his working hours be so limited as to allow him a measure of leisure.