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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 75

The Institute and the Education Board

The Institute and the Education Board.

By reference to other parts of the Report, it will be seen that the Board has been anxious to get the opinion of the Institute on questions connected with the effective administration of our Educational System. Teachers will fully appreciate this action, and it is to be hoped that the practice will continue; for a Conference consisting of representatives of the Board, of the Institute, and of the Inspectorial staff, must bring about good results and minimise misunderstandings and friction.

But in this connection it will not be amiss to say a word to teachers not connected with the Institute. The Board and its Inspectors, however willing to consult the Institute as representing page 16 experts, can only do so with dignity and with confidence in the results, when the Institute embodies the general opinion of the teachers as a whole. A great deal has been said about the Institute not being a fully representative body. The remedy lies with the teachers themselves, for the times are past when individual opinions can be listened to by a governing body taking charge of interests so varied and having results so far reaching. More would have been done in the past if teachers had been true to themselves. When an opportunity has occurred to voice the opinion of the Institute, the Executive has been brought face to face with the fact that teachers themselves might not be in agreement what the Executive might advance, and the Board also was able to retort that the Institute's opinion could not be taken as a representative one. It is therefore hoped that all certificated teachers in the Board's service will see their way to become members; for when the Institute represents the whole, of the teachers, the Board and its Inspectors will be still more willing to consult with the Executive, knowing that the outcome of such consultations will be welcomed by the majority of the profession.