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 everyday
activities with him, they teach him their language, their values and their
manners. 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 19th 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, however, (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.