ABSTRACT
The old system requires more careful pastoral guidance, more thorough documentation, more ingenious and imaginative preparation of teaching material than the old one did. Good teachers have always known this, and have acted in their own way to supply their pupils' needs; but private enterprise in such matters can be selective in its application, while the State itself, through its welfare services, deals with financial or physical needs. In a number of schools there were rooms provided in which staff and parents could meet in reasonable comfort and privacy. In the Virgilio middle school, at Cremona, every teacher was allotted a free hour each week in his timetable for the same purpose, and this also happened at several of the Spanish schools; and there was similar provision for counselling individual pupils, both there and in some of the French schools.
