Excerpt from Riberside Educational Monographs: Trades and Professions Yet in spite of our ungrudging praise of the idealism of teachers, the public is not completely pleased with the schools and their products. Indeed, it must be said that the teachers them selves are far from being satisfied with their own service. Everywhere there are evidences of new protests and aspirations in the teaching profes sions. The teachers in the grades unite to gain a higher wage, to establish annuities for old age, or to add stability to tenure; they plead for the right to exercise initiative and discretion in the management of their own classrooms, and ask to be heard in the general councils of the school department. The supervisory officials, too, ask for an expert status that will allow them to meet with a freer will the difiiculties of school organ ization and administration; they survey the community in order to register accurately its needs and demands, and measure with scientifi cally derived standards the worth of teaching. Somehow, in the face of all these disturbances. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.