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Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20621, 10 August 1932, Page 10

At the annual conference of the Association of Head Mistresses, held in London, Miss J. M. H. McCaig (Notting Hill High School), speaking on ''The Future of the Teaching Profession," said their real business was to teach how to live, and "the old familiar business of imparting knowledge" was only incidental. Teachers should not shut their minds to new ideas of reformers, but should study the working out of their experiments. Nor should they dismiss all schools that were seeking a new path as "freak" schools. The common element in all these experiments seemed to be that tfcey were working in the direction of liberty, of individual work or group work instead of class teaching, of affording greater scope for the creative instinct and the acquisition of skill, and that they were trying to make school education a vital part of the continuous process of social education. There was in our education too much book knowledge and too little correlation with social need. She trusted that increasing advantage would be taken of the facilities for the exchange of teachers, and that it would soon cease to be the ease that a voung teacher hesitated to go to the Dominions for a year or two because it lessened her chance of finding a post on her return.

Efforts to secure recognition of the bravery of a person who rescued a woman from drowning near the Efowick Wharf fifteen years ago are being made. At the last meeting of the Howick Town Board a letter was received from a friend of the rescued woman expressing astonishment that the rescuer's bravery had never been officially recognised. It was decided to forward the letter to th« Royal Humane Society.