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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 79

The Mistress of a Department should be Free from a Class

The Mistress of a Department should be Free from a Class.

In England, Scotland, and elsewhere, the mistress of a department does no class work. This principle might, in my opinion, be adopted in New South Wales with much advantage. The mistress who is bound to a class I cannot possibly have that inspiring and consolidating influence on her school that the head of a department should have. She should have time for thought, time for individual talks with her teachers, time to see deeply and sympathetically into the work of each class, and time to be alive and enthusiastic so that others may catch alight from the fire of her thought.