LITTLE THINGS BY Charles Robert Morrison

as critic; should become a teacher to others; for in no other way can that
best be accomplished which is the primary idea of education--to
communicate ideas to others.
While there may be much to depress in a community, such as a
missionary finds in a heathen land, yet every effort at enlightenment
will draw upon the resources of the man, and cause him to devise
expedients whereby truth may be conveyed to the simple and ignorant
about him. So it is everywhere. Hence, if the educated man would retain
and increase his power of thought and his measure of culture, let him
impart to others.
"I feel my deficiency," said a musician to another, "and I have concluded
to find a teacher to help me."
"Nonsense," exclaimed the other, "find a pupil instead of a teacher, and
you will learn while you teach."
It is not the imposition of our learning, our ideas of truth and our
knowledge of fact and principle upon others--that will help them or us.
It is the contact of truth-seekers, one with the other, as flint strikes flint,
that produces the light.
Determine to know, to learn from any source; apply the mind
attentively; go over and over the fact and the formula and the act, until
it is your own by self-discipline; owe loyal allegiance to teachers; make
yourself a faithful subject of Truth wherever found; read books--the
recognized standards; study events; become helpers to those who also
are struggling up the mountain-side of truth and knowledge, until they
stand beside you and rejoice in the wider vision of human and eternal
life.
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