{"id":7033,"date":"2021-04-07T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-07T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=7033"},"modified":"2021-04-07T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-04-07T05:00:00","slug":"the-schoolteacher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/the-schoolteacher\/","title":{"rendered":"The Schoolteacher"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>From <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn87093407\/1913-04-07\/ed-1\/seq-8\/\"><em>The Seattle Star, April 7, 1913<\/em><\/a><em>.\u00a0<\/em>\n <em>By Berton Braley.<\/em>\n \n\n She\u2019s much more important than presidents are\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Or other officials of state;\n In HER hands is power to make or to mar\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Our national future and fate;\n The men of tomorrow are hers for today\n \u00a0 \u00a0 To counsel and pilot and guide.\n With patience and love she will show them the way\n \u00a0 \u00a0 To lives that are worthy of pride.\n \n She is molding the thoughts of the girls and the boys\n \u00a0 \u00a0 To whom we must leave our tomorrows;\n She learns of their every-day pleasures and joys\n \u00a0 \u00a0 And shares in their pains and their sorrows;\n The youth of the country is put in her care\n \u00a0 \u00a0 To learn of the way they should go;\n She gives them her best\u2014and a little to spare\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Which only the children can know.\n \n We know how she works and how nobly she serves\n \u00a0 \u00a0 With all of her soul and her heart,\n Devoting her strength and her health and her nerves\n \u00a0 \u00a0 To playing her excellent part,\n And so it\u2019s our pleasure and even our boast\n \u00a0 \u00a0 The way we are paying our debts,\n Since we give her a salary equal (almost)\n \u00a0 \u00a0 To that which the janitor gets.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> She\u2019s much more important than presidents are<br \/>\n     Or other officials of state;<br \/>\n In HER hands is power to make or to mar<br \/>\n     Our national future and fate;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,17],"tags":[66],"class_list":["post-7033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-the-seattle-star","tag-berton-braley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}