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Principal, University of London, 1983–85; Director, Institute of Education, 1973–83. Vice-Chancellor, University of Hull, England, 1985–91; University of Huddersfield, 1994–95. Author of Society and...
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Education: Teacher who had knife pulled on him gives warning • Dec. 6, 2024, 3:44 AM ET (BBC)

teacher education, any of the formal programs that have been established for the preparation of teachers at the elementary- and secondary-school levels. (Read Arne Duncan’s Britannica essay on “Education: The Great Equalizer.”) While arrangements of one kind or another for the education of the young have existed at all times and in all societies, it is only recently that schools have emerged as distinctive institutions for this purpose on a mass scale, and teachers as a distinctive occupational category. Parents, elders, priests, and wise men have traditionally seen it as their duty to pass on their knowledge and skills to ...(100 of 6978 words)

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