Passage 1 one hundred years ago, school teachers were expected to provide a variety of services in addition to their teaching duties and to behave themselves in an exemplary (serving ads an example) manner. They cared for oil lamps, tended the fire, and supplies their students with sharp pencils. After a long day in he classroom, they were expected to spend some time every evening reading the Bible. Women teachers could not marry, and barber shops were off limits to men teachers. Of course, alcohol and tobacco were forbidden.