To some it would
look foolish to dismiss school for a circus, but it will cement a
friendship between teachers and scholars that nothing else could.
Suppose, a day or two before the circus arrives, the teacher should say to
the school: "Now I want you kids to go through your studies like a tramp
through a boiled dinner, and when the circus comes we will close up this
ranch and all go to the circus, and if any of you can't raise the money to
go, leave your names on my desk and I will see you inside the tent if I
have to pawn my shirt."
Of course it is a male teacher we are supposing said this. Well, don't you
suppose those boys and girls would study? They would fairly whoop it up.
And then suppose the teacher found forty boys that hadn't any money to go
and he had no school funds to be used for such a purpose.
How long would it take him to collect the money by going around
among business men who had been boys themselves? He would go into a store
and say he was trying to raise money to take some of the poor children to
the circus, and a dozen hands would go down into a dozen pockets in two
jerks of a continued story, and they would all chip in.
O, we are too smart. We are trying to fire education into boys with a shot
gun, when we ought to get it into them inside of sugar coated pills.
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