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Southwestern Journal of Education.

FOR TEACHERS AND FRIENDS OF EDUCATION.

Vol. V.

SEPTEMBER, 1880.

FORMATION OF CHARACTER.

MARY R. ALLING.

No. I.

MODE

ODERN thought has laid upon the teacher new responsibilities.
In former times he might be satisfied if he taught his pupils the
rudiments of knowledge contained in the few text-books used, and ad-
ministered with due severity the one punishment for all offenses. To-
day he may dismiss them from his conscience through no such simple
means. Not to teach a few facts, but to lead out the whole train of in-
tellectual powers; not to keep order by rod or ferule, but by awakened
interest in study and intelligent self-control-this is now the common
conception of a teacher's work.

But this never resting nineteenth century does not stop here. Al-
ready it has forced our leaders to swear allegience to a still harder task
-the symmetrical development of character. Most of us but dimly