I think there is nothing analogous to this moral connection between teacher and pupil unless it be in the case of a parent and child.

And here, on account of the comparative smallness of the number under the parent's care, the evil is so much diminished that it is easily borne.
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The second great difficulty of the teacher's employments is _the immense multiplicity of the objects of his attention and care_ during the time he is employed in his business.

His scholars are individuals, and notwithstanding all that the most systematic can do in the way of classification, they must be attended to in a great measure as individuals.

A merchant keeps his commodities together, and looks upon a cargo composed of ten thousand articles, and worth a hundred thousand dollars, as one; he speaks of it as one; and there is, in many cases, no more perplexity in planning its destination than if it were a single box of raisins.