TEACHERS AND COMMUNITY

Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28897, 18 May 1959, Page 7

TEACHERS AND COMMUNITY

Status Dependent On Impact fXew Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, May 16. The impact teachers made on the community would determine their status in that community, said the president of the New Zealand Women Teachers’ Association (Miss M. A. Bradstock. of Dunedin), in her address to the annual meeting of the association in Wellington. Miss Bradstock said that in a modern complex society the role of the teacher was often difficult to. define. ‘Teachers should be more than just instructors of the young people of the community. Today they should be acknowledged as one of the key persons in our society” she said. Attention to teacher training and the screening of entrants would do much to improve the quality of those selected for the profession. She hoped the training period would be extended to make still greater use of the talents of young entrants. The teachers’ reward would be m the manifest contribution to social progress and human happiness that their efforts produced, said Miss Bradstock. More important would be the wholesome relationships that would grow up between teachers •nd their fellow citizens. This would lead to a fuller education for young people who would be the makers of tomorrow’s history.