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Papers on Popular Education and School-Keeping
Papers on Popular Education and SchoolKeeping Author:Robert Sullivan General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1863 Original Publisher: Longman, Green Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can ... more »select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CLASSIFICATION OP TEACHERS. Of the importance of the Classification of Teachers there can be no doubt. The interests of education require it; and besides it is a distinction and an advantage which all well-qualified and deserving teachers have a right to expect. Accordingly, we find that in all organized systems of public instruction the classification of the teachers forms an essential part. But with regard to the standard of classification, or the amount of the qualifications required for each class -- and also, as to whether the classifications when once made, should be permanent oronly fora limited period -- much difference of opinion naturally exists. In Ireland, for example, the standard of the classification of the teachers of the National Schools is thought by many to be far too high for the wants of the country; and however this may be, it is certainly too high, compared with the remuneration which they receive for their services -- we mean from the parents of their pupils, and the patrons of their schools -- for from the Board the grants in aid of their salaries are very liberal. In fact, it is thought by many that the Board ought not to grant so much, where so little is raised locally. It would seem that the Board before legislating upon the classification of the teachers required their principal officers to give their opinions upon the subject. This was very judicious, and we believe it is done in all similar cases. Of course, on such occasions, perfect unanimity is not to be expected; aud this seems to have been the case with regard to some of the questi...« less