The detailed Table of Contents immediately precedes the Essay.

PART I.

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138-41

The Educator a Foster Parent

Education. Moral Developement as the ground

of Knowledge

Erroneous and unjust Conduct of Individuals

and the Public concerning Education and its

Professors

Expediency of rightly appreciating Education

and its Professors

PART II. Popular Excitement

True Method of Education

True Character of the Educator

Self-formation

Cultivation of Taste.

Methods of Culture

RT III. Plan of a Normal School

Founder of the Normal School .

Conclusion.

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ESSAY III.

BY THE REV. EDWARD HIGGINSON. Pages 263-347

Importance of Education. Now acknowledged.-Education honoured

in Words. Low Position of Teachers. - Good Effects of elevating

it.

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- Causes of its Depression. - Demand and Supply. - Intellec-
tual Producers. Animal Civilization.

- Analogy of the Clerical Profession.

tors. -

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Market-price of Education.

Want of Intellectual Taste.

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-Inefficiency of the Educators. Competition of Educators. - Go-
vernesses.-- Choice of a School. Public and Private Schools. -
Domestic Tutors. Female Education. - Incompetency of Educa-
-Free-trade Principle. - Evils, how to be cured?— Question

of State Interference. · Distinctions considered. Abstract Right

English Jealousy of In-

terference. Analagous Cases. — Medical, Legal, and other Pro-
fessions. Necessity of Teachers' Institutes. -

of Interference. · Practical Limitations.

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Spontaneous For-
mation unlikely. — Religious Difficulties. — Legislature must favour

no Sect. Mr. Brougham's Bills.

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Sectarianism easily avoided.

Theory and Practice of Teaching. — Cost of Teachers' Institutes. -

Legislation and Organization..

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Moral Agencies and Moral Effects.

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- The Educational Standard -rising. Infant Schools for Chil-

dren of the Rich.

Progress of Education in England. - Cheap Literature. —
Newspapers. Scientific Societies. - Pulpit. - Taxes on Know-
ledge. - How to elevate the Teacher. - Suggestions. Objects of
Education. Method of Developement. - Rote-Teaching. Cate-
chisms. Cultivation of the Memory. - Machinery of Teaching.
Systems. Course of Study. Old Prejudices and New Ones. -
Narrow Views of Utility. Educated Artisans. Teachers may

elevate their Art. — Ethics of Teaching. — Importance of the Office.
Study of Mind.- Love of Children.- Control of Temper.-
Notion of Dignity. . Affection. Candour and Pretension.
Friendships resulting from Teaching. Social Influence of Pupils.

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ESSAY IV.

BY JAMES SIMPSON, ESQ. Pages 351-429

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Low Estimation of the Educator.-Inadequate Remuneration. - Ex-

PEDIENCY OF ELEVATING THE PROFESSION OF THE EDUCATOR.-

Physical Qualities of the Educator. - Moral Qualities. - Effects of
Moral Character on Education. - Intellectual Powers. - Intellectual
- Intellectual Education.- Extent of Knowledge to
Didactic Qualifications. Standard should be high.

Attainments.

be imparted.

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MEANS OF ELEVATING THE PROFESSION OF THE EDUcator.

Centralized National System. - Normal College. - Improved Sub-

stance and System. Adequate Remuneration.

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- Honours and

Distinctions. - Deference due to the Educator. His Exertions and
Duties. Conclusion.

ESSAY V.

BY MRS. G. R. PORTER.

Pages 435-535

Importance of Improvement in individual Character. - The Necessity
thence arising for raising the Character of Educators. Causes of
the low Estimation in which Educators are held. Obstacles to the
remedy of this Evil. By what Means to be removed. - System
of "Normal Schools" in some other Countries. Plan for a Na-
tional Establishment proposed. - Statistical Data. - Difficulties on
the Subject of Religion. Necessity for Religious Instruction en-
forced. Recapitulation. — Conclusion.

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THE

SOCIAL POSITION

OF

EDUCATORS,

BEING

AN ESSAY ON "THE EXPEDIENCY AND THE MEANS OF
ELEVATING THE PROFESSION OF THE EDUCATOR
IN PUBLIC ESTIMATION,"

TO WHICH A PRIZE OF ONE HUNDRED GUINEAS WAS AWARDED BY THE CENTRAL SOCIETY OF EDUCATION.

BY JOHN LALOR, A. B.

(OF TRINITY COLLEGE, DUBLIN.)