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 LECTURE VII THE EQUIPMENT OF THE TEACHER: AS SELF-CULTIVATION

That the professional teacher needs some special equipment for his work, is a statement which few, or none, would be found ready to dispute. Even the ditcher or navvy requires to learn the expert handling of spade and pickax. The artizan, the tradesman, the skilled laborer in any kind of enterprise must undergo some sort of apprentice- ship, in order that he may know how to handle his tools, but more especially, in order that he may know how to conduct himself under the conditions ordinary to his form of employment; and, as well, in view of the possible conditions arising at any time of the emergencies peculiar to it. Those whose business it is to deal with any form of life, and to assist in its cultivation and development into higher and more useful and beautiful products, need to have the knowledge of an expert in order to assist the forces of nature in their efforts after a more perfect result. We have, then, schools for manual training, and agricultural and horticul- tural schools; and in Japan, the Government founds fishery institutes, as well as oonunercial