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Life in the making: 335 total pages.

needs. Our task is now to see how such lesson materials may he made a part of his life, finding expression in daily habits. The Teacher's Personality. The first factor in this process will be the personality of the teacher. If one were asked to sum up in a word the qualifications of an ideal teacher for this period of life, he would say that the ideal teacher should be "motherly" Where else can we find such love, such complete knowledge of the child's physical and mental resources, such patience, such close direction of habits, as in a com­petent mother? Every mother is a teacher whether she wishes to be or not, and every teacher of little children should have a mother's instincts and methods. Good fathers will differ from good mothers, not in spirit but in the degrees of their opportunity. However, while we have spoken of the ideal teacher as motherly, it must not be thought that the fact of being a mother qualifies one to teach, nor that the lack of such experience is a barrier to success. Many a young woman has the mother love for

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