ABSTRACT

The following question is immediately raised: If the teacher's lot were improved such as to return him from the ‘survival’ to the ‘educational’ side of the threshold, what exactly would he be doing? Would he, for example, be freer to concentrate on ‘transmitting knowledge’, ‘developing skills and aptitudes’, ‘facilitating the growth of the child’, or other activities that have, from time to time, been defined as ‘education’?