Cheerfulness
It is often said that childhood is life’s happiest period. Where then is the teacher who comes in contact with child life daily, who cannot be happy, youthful and ever ready to bestow the cheerfulness, of a helpful life? The happy-minded teacher will never pass his pupils anywhere without leaving with them a sense of his kindly interest. He knows when to enter the child’s world to share his joys—and his are real joys—when to sympathize with him in sorrow. The teacher whose life has become bitter, and who no longer can be happy-minded and cheerful, should leave the profession. Everywhere is needed cheer; no place can be made better by gloom, but especially should a companion of children be optimistic.