They contribute nothing to the higher development of their pupils.

They busy themselves, not with research into the science of teaching, but with organizing political demonstrations to advance the cause of selfish candidates for public office, who promise them rewards.

The true teachers are of another strain.

Apostles all of an ideal, they go to their work in a spirit of love and inquiry, seeking not comfort, not position, not old-age pensions, but truth that is the soul of wisdom, the joy of big-eyed children, the food of hungry youth.
They were true teachers who used to come to me on Arlington Street, so my father had reason to boast of the distinction brought upon his house.

For the school-teacher in her trim, unostentatious dress was an uncommon visitor in our neighborhood; and the talk that passed in the bare little "parlor" over the grocery store would not have been entirely comprehensible to our next-door neighbor.
In the grammar school I had as good teaching as I had had in the primary.