Respect For Teacher
True respect for a strict teacher can grow into deep affection over time.
In Morley’s “Gladstone” there is a passage from the pen of the great premier, telling how, years after his Eton career, he sat down to a dinner in honor of the severe old head-master who had flogged every boy in the school, most of them many times. They had all hated him, they said. But when he rose to speak at that dinner, such a storm of applause never greeted a triumphant parliamentarian; and tears of affection actually overflowed all eyes.--BURRIS A. JENKINS, “Proceedings of the Religious Education Association,” 1904.