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A teacher is someone who communicates information or skill SO that someone else may learn．Parents are the (51) teachers．Just by living with their child and (52) their every day activities with him，they teach him their language，their values and their man— ners．Information and skills difficult to teach (53) family living are taught in a school by a person (54) special occupation is teaching．
Before 1900 it (55) widely assumed that a man was qualified to teach if he could read and write and (56) qualified if he knew arithmetic．With modest (57) like these，it is no (58) that teachers had low salaries and little prestige．Literature and history frequently portray teachers (59) fools and ignoramuses．
By the late 1 9th century，there were (60) that the status of teachers was slowly (61) .Great educators such as Mann and Henry Barnard，and innovative thinkers such as Dewey and Parker began to command a (62) that in a few decades had to some (63) permeated classrooms in the United States．Progress was more glacial than meteoric，how ever， (64) the last half of the century．
In the 20th century the status of teachers rose as the standards (65) their education rose．By 1950 the average teacher had an education that greatly exceeded that of the average citizen．