In considering teaching as a possible calling the advantages of the long holidays are worthy of consideration. They give opportunities of friendship, life with one’s own family, travel, study, and pleasures of many kinds. It is good, too, in these busy days that a few people have intervals of leisure in which they have time to sympathise with others, and to think of the little things of life that are in reality the great things. Holidays may be the greatest boon not only to oneself, but to all the people one meets. Particulars about the training for teaching are to be found in many books. Two which come readily to my mind are “The Teacher’s Year Book” and “The Englishwoman’s Year Book”. The registrars of the different universities are always glad to supply particulars if asked. The Board of Education will give details about elementary school teaching: these change somewhat every few years. There are many helps for those who intend to be teachers, the chief being the scholarships offered by the different colleges to those who could not without aid afford the fees. This is especially true of some of the newer universities. Many large schools also offer help to their pupils who have the ability and desire to go on to the universities. To the girl who feels in her the desire to teach, and has the power necessary for the task, I should say, “Accept your work, and I am sure you will have no reason to regret your decision.” For with all its hardships, all its endless striving after impossible ideals, it is a work which can really be one’s life: and surely such work is always the happiest. It has many joys. There are few in life greater than that of seeing gradually awaken in a child interest and keenness where before there has been apathy and dullness. To be able to give life to dry bones of knowledge, to rouse from its torpor the still sleeping mind, to turn the faces of the children we teach towards the light is surely well worth doing. It has many opportunities. The teacher’s task is not to teach opinions, but to lay the foundations of sound moral standards on which all true opinion must rest. The world needs teachers: not the perfunctory worker who takes up one of the most sacred of callings as a means of livelihood, but the teacher who is willing to consecrate herself for the work. At the end of that powerful novel of Robert Herrick’s, “The Healer,” is a vivid scene. The old doctor, whose gift had been lost through the exacting claims of an unsuitable marriage, is walking arm-in-arm with a young student. The older man has recognised in the younger the power he himself once had, the gift of healing. Very affectionately he lays his hand on the lad’s shoulder. “Remember,” he says--I quote from memory--“this gift of yours will demand whole-hearted devotion and will be satisfied with nothing less than your life.”