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IN his presidential address to Section L (Education), Mr. W. O. Lester Smith points out that school business has increased rapidly in recent years, affecting each of the leading partners in educational, administration—the Ministry of Education, the local authority, the head teacher and his colleagues. It is Worth considering how this has come about, and there Would seem to be three main causes : social change, the widening scope of education, and the modern emphasis on management. The administrative pressure on the head teacher is more serious in its consequences than that on the other two partners, because hitherto in Great Britain We have regarded the school as the natural growing point of educational thought and technique, and We owe much to the creative wisdom of some of our great head teachers.
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The School in a Progressive Society. Nature 162, 405 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/162405b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/162405b0