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In “Learning to be a Schoolmaster” theauthor has related some of his personal experiences,which he trusts will be suggestive tothose who are just entering the teaching profession.
| I. | Entering the Teaching Profession | 1 |
| II. | Getting a Position | 7 |
| III. | Before School Opens—After Getting the First Superintendency | 13 |
| IV. | Teachers’ Meetings | 17 |
| V. | Meeting with the School Board | 22 |
| VI. | School Activities | 28 |
| VII. | The Janitor—His Relation to the School | 39 |
| VIII. | How the Principal Can Help the Teacher | 44 |
| IX. | The School and the Community | 56 |
Little did I think, during my college days,that I should ever become a teacher. Itwould have made me unpopular to have said so,even if I had had any designs in that direction.My college mates, who were planning to belawyers, engineers, or commercial men of prominence,considered teaching creditable only as a“fill in job.” I joined them in their happyaspirations and tried to think I was preparingfor something. Just what that “something”was, I was unable to say.
Finally the day of graduation arrived. I wasready to go out into the world with a collegediploma, but was unprepared for a definite position.My false aspirations had failed, and Iwas looking hopelessly about for something todo that would save my pride. I must notaccept just a mere job, and to escape thathumiliation I became a teacher. It