heap upon him. Look over your school-room,
therefore, and wherever you find one, whom you perceive the Creator to
have endued with less intellectual power than others, fix your eye upon
him with an expression of kindness and sympathy. Such a boy will have
suffering enough from the selfish tyranny of his companions; he ought to
find in you, a protector and friend. One of the greatest pleasures which
a teacher's life affords, is, the interest of seeking out such an one,
bowed down with burdens of depression and discouragement,--unaccustomed
to sympathy and kindness, and expecting nothing for the future, but a
weary continuation of the cheerless toils, which have imbittered the
past;--and the pleasure of taking off the burden, of surprising the
timid disheartened sufferer by kind words and cheering looks, and of
seeing, in his countenance, the expression of ease and even of
happiness, gradually returning.

(3.)The teacher should be interested in _all_ his scholars, and aim
equally to secure the progress of all. Let there be no neglected ones in
the school room. We should always remember that, however unpleasant in
countenance and manners that bashful boy, in the corner, may be, or
however repulsive in appearance, or unhappy in disposition, that girl,
seeming to be interested in nobody, and nobody appearing interested in
her, they still have, each of them, a mother, who loves her own child,
and takes a deep and constant interest in its history. Those mothers
have a right too, that their children should receive their full share of
attention, in a school which has been established for the common and
equal benefit of all.

(4.) Do not hope or attempt to make all your pupils alike. Providence
has determined that human minds should differ from each other, for the
very purpose of giving variety and interest to this busy scene of life.
Now if it were possible for a teacher, so to plan his operations, as to
send his pupils forth upon the community, formed on the same model, as
if they were made by machinery, he would do so much, towards spoiling
one of the wisest of the plans which the Almighty has formed, for making
this world a happy scene. Let it be the teacher's aim to cooperate with,
not vainly to attempt to thwart the designs of Providence. We should
bring out those powers with which the Creator has endued the minds
placed under our control. We must open our garden to such influences as
shall bring forward all the plants, e