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Let us consider the teacher in an elementary school. If he has the slightest pedagogic sense he will declare that education is the last thing his masters want. What they demand for the pupils, and get, is instruction. Education, im its true sense, is reserved for the middle and upper classes. It is not a case so much of precise knowledge as atmosphere. Our teacher will further declare that if the teaching professions were a self-governing profession—a National Guild, in short—we should be an educated people in another generation. Put at the disposal of a National Guild of Teachers the sums now spent by Whitehall and the local authorities, plus what is spent by the parents, and education, as distinct from instruction, will soon be universal.

Passing from mind to body, from education to medicine, we may say of the doctor, that, although his training is more expensive and his emoluments cover a wider range, his professional status differs

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