What shall we teach the teachers?

Abstract

Quis docebit ipsos doctores? Who will teach the teachers themselves? — as Juvenal might have written. Even more important, what shall we teach them? The questions arise in an acute form from Shirley Williams's announcement that the Government has at last agreed that there shall be a general system of maintenance allowances for those remaining in full‐time education after the age of compulsory schooling. The object of the scheme will be to encourage more young people to stay on, and at last it is recognised that we have in Britain the lowest staying‐on‐rate in Western Europe, outside the predominantly rural countries of Portugal and the Republic of Ireland. If more 16 to 19s remain in full‐time education, someone will have to teach them.

Citation

Fowler, G. (1978), "What shall we teach the teachers?", Education + Training, Vol. 20 No. 6, pp. 188-189. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb016565