"School teacher" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... lays down the community must take up. The public school cannot cultivate the spirit of prayer, and if the home does not, the church remains the only possible agent through which it may be done. The Sunday-school teacher is the church's most potent instrument, therefore a large share of ...
— The Girl and Her Religion • Margaret Slattery
... fortunate meeting you here in the lane. I've been wishing for an opportunity to speak with you for two or three days past, but the Ark is such a popular resort for the youth of Wallencamp, and the children seem to be always following you. Well, they regard the school teacher as their special property, and would Consider me worse than an intruder if I should go in to take even the lowest seat in the synagogue. I've been wanting to speak with you ever since that first night—when I stared ...
— Cape Cod Folks • Sarah P. McLean Greene
... "I'm afraid, your Excellency, if you'd ever been a school teacher, you'd have found many ...
— The Further Adventures of Quincy Adams Sawyer and Mason's Corner Folks • Charles Felton Pidgin
... a hundred and deaf as a post," complained Emma Jane. "Besides, his married daughter is a Sabbath-school teacher—why doesn't she teach him to behave? I can't think of anybody ...
— New Chronicles of Rebecca • Kate Douglas Wiggin
... children lay in the fact that he obtained a personal influence over each one individually. With a small class he could get to know each by name, and win the affections of all one by one. The words, "He loved little children," which were the only epitaph on the tomb of a certain Sunday-school teacher, might well be applied to Gordon. It is difficult to say what kind of teacher he was, or whether he availed himself of the latest developments in the art of instructing children; but this is quite clear, that he had one of the best qualifications a teacher can possess, love ...
— General Gordon - A Christian Hero • Seton Churchill
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