To the. Editor of the "Norru-Cama Datty News."
Srr,—In a recent report of proceedings in Court the British Assistant Judge is quoted by the reporter as saying that he thought a Cambridge graduate ought to be able to secure employment as a@ teacher. a I feel quite sure that Mr. Grain, as Chairmam of the Educational Commission now sitting, is well aware of the standard of education and specialized study and training now required of candidates for entrance to the teaching profession, and that that profession, so far as recognized schools of any public standing are concerned, is now definitely and absolutely closed to the unspecialized by-products of any University or College, or of the community in general.
The teaching profession is now one which is as difficult of entry as most of the other professions, and should no more be judged by the amateurs and hangers-on who have no claims to recognition as qualified schoolmasters, than the medical profession should be judged by the quacks.
Much of whatever of value that there may be in the gaining of a Cambridge degree attaches to the holder in whatever calling he may follow in after life, but it is quite as erroneous to suppose that a Cambridge graduate is, solely by the holding of an ordinary degree, qualified to become a member of the teaching staff of a school, as it would be to suppose that.he is thereby qualified to practise as a doctor or a lawyer.
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