Petition for Pedagogs
Last week in the Journal of the National Education Association appeared "A Prayer for Teachers," by President Glenn Frank of the University of Wisconsin, onetime (1921-25) Editor of Century Magazine. Acutely aware of teacher failings, in part he prayed:
"O Lord of Learning and of Learners, we are at best but blunderers in this Godlike business of teaching. Our shortcomings shame us, for we are not alone in paying the penalty for them; they have a sorry immortality in the maimed minds of those whom we,...
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