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AT a public meeting of the Derbyshire County Association of the National Union of Teachers on March 26, Mr. A. E. Henshall, education secretary of the Union, spoke on present-day teachers' aims and attitudes as contrasted with those of their predecessors. The attitudes established by the notorious payment-by-results system persisted long after its abolition, but to-day there is fairly general acceptance of the view that the teacher is concerned before everything else with the welfare of the individual child, considered as a person destined in due course to contribute to the welfare of the community as a citizen of a democratic State. It follows, at least in theory, that teachers of children in all stages in every kind of school—infants, junior, senior, central, secondary—are united in a single task and owe it to themselves and their charges that they should cooperate as fellow workers in a unitary service. To promote such co-operation by providing convenient occasions for getting together and comparing notes is an important function of the local associations of the National Union. Mr. Henshall stressed the pioneer role of the new senior schools and warned their teachers against sacrificing their comparative freedom in a misguided effort to rival the secondary schools. With equal emphasis he insisted on the importance of the junior schools, the teachers of which should be regarded as having a status not inferior to that of senior school teachers.
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Changing Conceptions of Education. Nature 141, 637 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/141637c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/141637c0