THE FEMALE TEACHER: IDEAS SUGGESTIVE OF HER QUALIFICATIONS AND DUTIES. BY LOUISA OCTAVIA HOPE. EDINBURGH: PATON AND RITCHIE, 3 HANOVER STREET; MDCCCLIII. Earl Barnes. THE FEMALE TEACHER. LETTER I. PERSONAL PIETY NECESSARY IN A TEACHER. MY DEAR YOUNG FRIENDS, Let me distinctly state, that the object I have in view in these letters, is not to lay before you any definite theory or system, either of Education or of Theology. It would be wholly out of place were I to do so. The ministers of God are your proper theological teachers; and men who have made education the business of their lives, are the best expositors of educational systems. My object is rather to supplement what you hear from the pulpit or the desk, by such homely and familiar remarks, upon the peculiar duties of female teachers, as cannot be entered upon by the minister or the lecturer. Thus, the question how far personal piety is necessary in a teacher, may seem one above and beyond my province. At the same time, it is impossible for any one to leave it out who has the opportunity of acquiring an influence over your ́ minds. That which must form the whole basis of your usefulness as teachers, must also be the basis of mine. Nay, rather, my only doubt might have been, whether, just because personal religion is to A |