. Bellini. e the inane and parsimo-nious policy of trying to drive all the really strongmen and women out of the teaching profession byputting them on the pay-roll at one-half the rate, orless, than ^vhat the same brains and energy can com-mand elsew^here. In this year of our Lord, 1902, in atime of peace, we have appropriated four hundredmillion dollars for war and war appliances, and thissum is just double the cost of the entire public schoolsystem in America. It is not the necessity of economythat dictates our actions in this matter of education—we simply are not enlightened. But this thing


. Bellini. e the inane and parsimo-nious policy of trying to drive all the really strongmen and women out of the teaching profession byputting them on the pay-roll at one-half the rate, orless, than ^vhat the same brains and energy can com-mand elsew^here. In this year of our Lord, 1902, in atime of peace, we have appropriated four hundredmillion dollars for war and war appliances, and thissum is just double the cost of the entire public schoolsystem in America. It is not the necessity of economythat dictates our actions in this matter of education—we simply are not enlightened. But this thing cannot always last—I look for the timewhen we shall set apart the best and noblest men andwomen of earth for teachers, and their compensationwill be so adequate that they will be free to givethemselves for the benefit of the race, without appre-hension of a yawning almshouse. A liberal policy willbe for our own good, just as a matter of cold expedi-ency; it will be Enlightened Self-interest. 6o BELLINI. ITH the rise of the Bellinis, Vene-tian art ceased to be provincial,blossoming out into national. Ja-copo Bellini v/as a teacher—mild,gentle, sympathetic, reveals personality, but issomewhat stiff and statuesque:sharp in outline like an antiquestained glass window. This is be-cause his art was descended from the glass workers ;and he himself continued to make designs for the glassworkers of Murano all his life. Considering the timein which he lived he was a great painter, for he im-proved upon what had gone before & prepared the wayfor those greater than he who were yet to come. Hecalled himself an experimenter, and around him thereclustered a goodly group of young men who weretreated by him more as comrades than as were all boys together—learners, with the addeddignity which an older head of the right sort can Old Jacopo they used to call him, and there wasa touch of affection in the term to which several ofthem have testified. All


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