In the photographic studio it is not enough to have a favorable
light, expensive lenses, and the latest arrangement of shutters
and slides. It is not enough to have fair women and brave men
before the camera. It is not enough to have a perfect plate,
ready to respond to the faintest ray of light; there must also
be a skilled operator, who shall moderate the glare, arrange the
shadows, measure the distance, adjust the instrument, calculate
the exposure, pose the sitters, engage the attention, and at the
psychologico-photographic moment spring the shutter.
In like fashion the artist-teacher deals with his carefully
sensitized pupil as he prepares to take a picture worth
developing. Deftly he arranges each detail and improves every
condition; then he unveils before him some image of truth and
beauty wrought by skilful hands and eagerly awaits the results.
If he succeeds, he knows it without troublesome delay. He
glances swiftly about his class, detecting here and there a
pupil who responds, “his rapt soul sitting in his eyes”; and the
instructor glows with the consciousness that his labors have not
been in vain.--D. O. S. LOWELL, “Proceedings of the
Religious Education Association,” 1905.
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