I wish that all who teach may be more fit for the situation than I am.

I know many who are an honour to their profession, as well as the situation they fill; but, I am sorry to say, I think they do not all meet with the encouragement they merit.

It is not always those who do their duty the best that are most valued; but if a man's conscience do not upbraid him, he has in its approval a high reward.
And now, as to a matter on which there is some difference of opinion, _viz_., whether women are or are not as fit for conductors of infant schools as men; my decided opinion is, that _alone_ they are not.
There should be in every school a master and a mistress.

In the first place, in an infant school, the presence of the man, as of a father in a family, will insure a far greater degree of respect and attention on the part of the children.

This does not arise from the exercise of any greater degree of harshness or severity than a mother would be capable of using; nor is it to be attributed, as some suppose, to the less frequent presence of the father in the case of many families, but is rather to be accounted for by an intuitive perception of the greater firmness and determination of the character of the man.