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we, \ flowers to the gardener. Why should it not

interest as hunting to the huntsman, or

be as interesting to contemplate different
kinds of boys as different kinds of minerals
and plants? Why should we not examine the ways
and habits of girls, as eagerly as those of fish, fowl, and
insects? Next to parents, the persons who get the
clearest insight into children and youth are teachers.
Some of these only teach for a living ; it is a drudgery
to them; they mean presently to leave it and go to
something else: how can such persons be happy
teachers? Others love their work, and ask no better
employment. Hence they always meet their pupils
with a smile, and hear every lesson with animation.
The scholars, in their turn, see this, and are all alive ;
teacher and scholar pull together, and there is more
progress made in a week than at one of the drudging
schools in a month.