Trades and Professions

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Houghton Mifflin, 1914 - 37 pages
 

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Page 28 - GLORY of warrior, glory of orator, glory of song, Paid with a voice flying by to be lost on an endless sea — Glory of Virtue, to fight, to struggle, to right the wrong — Nay, but" she aim'd not at glory, no lover of glory she : Give her the glory of going on, and still to be.
Page 26 - I have not received?" for through union with our fellow teachers we become powerful. Since, then, we cannot each be a whole, let us join a whole, and so attain that dignity, that superiority to our own detached selves, which comes only through whole-hearted loyalty to our profession.
Page 23 - You, for example, are here today because as members of the teaching profession you know you can not do your work well out of your own heads. To a large degree you are dependent on those who are teachers already. Knowledge of our beautiful art has been accumulating from generation to generation and now furnishes the common stock from which we all draw.
Page 15 - Harvard College pays me for doing what I would gladly pay it for allowing me to do. No professional man, then, thinks of giving according to measure. Once engaged, he gives his best, gives his personal interest, himself. His heart is in his work, and for this no equivalent is possible...
Page 32 - On the whole, then, I am obliged to conclude that the kind of work we do does not make us professional men, but the spirit in which we do it. There is no fixed number of professions. One may be found anywhere, for professionalism is an attitude of mind. Wherever, outrunning the desire for personal profit, we find joy in...
Page 23 - You are here today because as members of the teaching profession you know you cannot do your work well out of your own heads. To a large degree you are dependent on those who are teachers already. Knowledge of our beautiful art has been accumulating from generation to generation and now furnishes the common stock from which we all draw. Each speaks not of 'my* profession, but of 'our' profession, and labors to advance rather it than himself.
Page 22 - a member of a profession," plainly indicating that he who deserves to be called such is no longer a merely individual person. He has merged his individuality with that of others and now belongs to a troop, a company, a brotherhood...
Page 9 - ... cover the expenses of that mode of life which is thought appropriate for him; the kind of life and the consequent scale of salary being designed to secure three essential elements in his work, namely, freedom, efficiency, and dignity.
Page 33 - ... workers for acquiring this life-giving professional spirit. Wealth can hardly be said to be open to us, anything more than a bare living we renounce at the start. The difficulties of our marvelous art of thought-transference and the intimate relations we hold with a multitude of expanding and needy minds continually stimulate our interest and our altruism. So distinct, too, is our business, so sharply separating us from those for whom we work, and even from the rest of the community, that the...

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