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Seventh-Day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Thursday, January 1, 1880

FromAdvent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 55, No. 1

THE TEACHER'S EYE.

It is with the eye that the teacher will most readily and accurately keep himself informed as to the degree of attention which his pupils are paying to the exercises in which they are engaged. You will see at a glance whether they are following you, or whether, through inability to understand your meaning, or through distraction, their minds are wandering. Your eye, then, is your sentinel. But it is capable of much more than informing your mind what is going on in your class. It will convey and emphasize your commands. Look what you mean when you give a command, and your words will be obeyed. Very often it will be needless to employ words at all. A look will suffice to express your wish and the intensity of the will that lies behind it. It will compel attention silently and promptly, without interruption to the exercise in hand, and without needless expenditure of physical energy. It will encourage and stimulate, admonish and rebuke, with a delicacy far beyond the power of language. Perhaps the most affecting of the reproofs given by the Divine Teacher was that referred to in the words, “The Lord turned and looked upon Peter.”—School Guardian.