ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the various groups thinking in terms of self-selection. Teaching is based on a fundamental acceptance of something. The job of teaching is to impart this knowledge to someone else. In practice, one thinks of teaching in terms of the imparting of knowledge, and a separate category is needed for the schooling of children who are difficult, that is to say, whose families or parents have not succeeded in producing teachable material. Self-selection in academic psychology is based on academic prowess and may not be based very much on personality structure or on such a thing as the capacity to make contact with a child. The paediatrician is in one respect in a similar position to the psychologist. He may be at the top of his profession and yet be unsuitable for intimate dealings with the mind of a child, or for that matter with the personalities of parents.
