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day the teacher who grew inert lost his pupils, and with them his Isalary. Or he incurred the dis

HOW LONG SHOULD THEY pleasure of His Majesty's In-

TEACHT

14 YEARS' SUGGESTED.

How long should a teacher teach? This question is raised in

NERVE STRAIN.

BUDAPEST'S EPIDEMIC OF SUICIDES,

spentor and was reduced in status. ¡Or he vexed the managers and

govenors of the school and was Salcido has *mitten. Burlapost discharged. Весливе of

the this year. The situation, which abuses of those powers the teach-has developed in the capital of ers fought for and secured a liv-Hangary is called, by those who ing salary, regularly graded and have studied it, the most tragic a searching manner by a corres- certain increments, unification of of all the way's many tragie aftor- pondent of the Times Educa professional qualifications and episodea.. tional Supplement." who, after security of tenure, with the result detailing the present system, gets that while the artificial and per- Last year Budapest was atterly to the heart of the question by haps immoral stimuli have been abandoned, to its gayely and light suggesting a drastic remedy. We abolished, nothing has taken their heartedness. A reaction from the quote the concluding portion of place.

whom we

of

view

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The situation is extraord inuny.

rsery of the war years seemed to this admirable contribution (-- "Without any increase of cost sweep fts people, off their feet as "We get a little nearer the evil, the amount of money spent in the they thought they had begun to perhaps, by considering the na-training of teachers could be dis-ee their way out of the economie, ture of the temptation that itributed over a longer period. tangle, and. probably, they were besets us as teachers," says the The preliminary period could be influenced by the fiel that in writer. "We are in contact with cut down to a minimum, to be Hungary as in Austria, the fact unformed minds, with scholars followed. after an interval, by a that no effective steps were taken who have less knowledge thansecond course and, after a longer toward stabiliaing currency, mate ourselves, with children over interval by a third. Our rhin-it seem wiser to" most people to

exercise ean

then hold spend ing colleges would

A quickly authority. From this point novitiatos, journeymen,..

as they get, and rather than to save, because there work our

ja too craftsmen, and the expression) always was a chance that their easy and easily begets pretence.trained teacher might die a money would have fallen in value}) We can pose before our class,

We are all overnight. Therefore it was suggesting directly or indirectly proper death,

teachers in process of training wisdom to by something with it. that we know more than we do and the process is lifelong. Many bought foolish things. [handing over the results of an- "It would be pure gain to the At any rate there was an

other's efforts without acknow-training colleges to have a stream pidemic of dissipation and thei ledging our indebtedness. jof teachers returning from the sort of hilarity that goes with it.

"We get more and

more schools, with leisure and freedom Now comes the reaction. familiar with our task as we re-to analyse the problems they Six Hundred Suicides, peat it, and we consequently ex-have discovered, and with ex. Having been compelled by cir pend in it less and less effort.perience wherewith to challenge cumstances to put aside the cup The experienced teacher is some-the theories of the lecture-room. of pleasure the people now are aimes lile more than an expeni- "As their needs and their in-turning to death.

led,

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enced tomaton. and is ap-terests would differ so widely, so Six hundred and one people parent gain is more than coun- would the methods of the training have committed suicide since: ter-balanced by the loss of effort colleges have to become mure and January 1 in Budhipest, a city of of creative sense. of enthusiastic more individual. The special, in-1.184,616, During the last week discovery, which his increasing terests which the teacher would in April the latest for which there facility in technique has destroy-bring back must be fed and nur-are ofeial figures, - twenty-three tured at all costs, and the regula- men and women kiled, themselves, "There is probably no work ions should be framed in such a It is said that the suicides which which may make so great or so way as to allow all conceivable, får have occurred this year. small a demand on a man's per-variations.

indicate a total for the twelve sonɗlity as teaching. For he may

The "By such means Dr. Westcott's months of more than 2.400. give all his faculties. all his term of 14 years might be extend-igures for last year were 1516 and powers, all his passion to the led and its mplied sting removed, for the year before 1002. task or he may give merely hist is difficult to see in what other. Lying Buck of all this tragedy acquired habits, thereby wrecking direction we can look for such undoubtedly a general convica| the personality upon which he far-reaching reforms as would tion among the people that tha follow from this simple change."ate of Hungary can be nothing but

"Public Opinion."

H.M.S. MALAYA.

makes na demands.

"It is in this sense that we may be out of touch with reality. Ter we are cutting curselves off from the most real part of fe, our own inward self. We lose our sense of true values, we sub- stitute means for grds, we be-l come more and môre dead to the ADMIRAL SIR ROGER KEYES' adventure of life. Many of our schools are choked with this en- cumbrance; why, then, "should

CONGRATULATIONS.

disaster. They cannot get away. They see no hope. Why live on? Their country has not been able to show signs of permanent, recovery People of all classes, from thei poorest servants to the richest in- dustrialists in the nation fear that they will lose even that which they have left and that the future holds for them nothing but misery.

we be impatient if ordbokers gibe received by His Excellency the

The folowing, letter has been Their country has not been able

among those highly "placed "as¦ jat our dullness?

"Young teachers frequently ex- Sir Roger Keyes, Commander-in-

High Commissioner from Admiral among the lowly.

In one day recently the respon-

press their dissatisfaction with Chief. Mediterranean Station, sible head of a great business and

the older teacher under whom Malta:

two fashionable women exactly

they begin their work, and the Sir, I have the honour to in-balanced in number two servant older teachers nearly as frequent form Your Excellency that H.M.S. girls and one clerk who killer ly resent the It is partly a case of the disson- in commission since September,

attitude assumed "Malaya." which ship has been themselves between sunrise and ance of age and youth, but its in- 1922, is now en route to England A terror of self-destruction? tensity is a measure of the reality to pay off and recommission. seems to have seized the city.

of the evils of the teaching world.

sunset.

It should warn as all of the dan-to end has been successful in

The commission which is about Members of families look furtively at one another wondering if any) xer, we are in. It is not a habit every way, and I feel you will be the gircle has the death thought of young men and young women interested to read the following gard each other with attention for in mind. In business partners re- to think of themselves forty message which I sent to the ship years on and few if any, realise on her departure from the Medindications of despair.

Servants

go to walk, man and maid, as ever,!

what they will themselves be like terranean Station, when a life of teaching has changed and moulded their dethe Commander-in-Chief wishes selves from some one of the bridges In bidding "Malaya" farewell; and with clasped hands cast them- elopment. Their chains will be to congratulate the Captain,

or take poison, forged imperceptibly, their ideas officers and ship's company on the

More women's names than men's" will turn more and more round a ship's record for the commission an old police tradition is generally appear upon the suicide lists and fixed point, their minds will do now closing. Whether in fighting violated by them, for few leave Velop more and more slowly If efficiency, pride of ship or sport notes behind them. youth could see itself in old age, Malaya" has always been in the

In the past would the world survive such a first fight and it is with real re. Now they just kill themselves and women always have. left notes. revelation?

gret that the Commander-in-Chief let it go at that. "Is there a remedy? It is no sees her leave the station to pay exaggeration to say that the most eff. "Good-bye and good luck.

Suffered Nerve Strain." potent factor in the teacher's

Perhaps also it is true that "Malaya will return to the Hungary, as a whole, has suffered atrophy is his

classroom isola Mediterrancan Station after remore of nerve Son There are teachers who ceiving her new crew, and I hope people could endure.

strain than its After the literally spend their working life they will attain an equally fine war the financial troubic, after in a clas-room in the perpetual record to that of the crew about that Balshevism, repression of it company of their scholars. They to pay off. They have splendid quite as great a strain may exchange no ideas with traditions to which to look up. adulte save in routine business, they may

never see another teacher exercising his eraft, they may never see another school at work, they may never receive a compelling stimulus to help them to redirect their attention to thei probleme, They may never realise that teaching is an art of infinite! variety.

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"These are haunting facts. They mean that their daily | work their life work, pri givej then no adequate task, no proper challenge, no satisfying interests.

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"White! curse itself, then the Terror, then the colossal franc forgery case, the attempt to or ganise something on the pattern of the Italian Faselsti and the failure so to do, constant rumours of plots against Hungary and con- stunt efforts in Hungary to plot! against her neighbour States-all these things have been apparently. far more than human nerves could bear, when such general influenc ́s have been superimposed upon such general individual distress as the economic situation had created.

Exactly.

Smith (in a tragic voice: "And habits. If the teaching world is whose baby seldom erles, sleeps peace seemed to hear strange sounds to save its soul alive it must not fully, cats well, gains weight revelar remain for ever in its classrooms,y day by day? If not most probably a rattle of chains, then a scratch- "Is not the only hope of solithe trouble is in the little one's stomach ing like a trapped and almost tion to be found in our methods ments of infancy arise.

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