Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Some Present Aspects of the Work of Teachers' Voluntary Associations in the United States
Under these circumstances it would seem advisable to follow the procedure so often successful elsewhere, - to substitute for vague, biased, and frequently purely traditional conjectures, some accurate knowledge obtained from a careful study of the facts. As the embodiment of the results of such an attempted study of certain significant activities of voluntary teachers' associations in the United States to-day, this work is accordingly presented.
However, the associations are so very complex in organization, aims and methods of work, that a student of them is in constant danger of going astray. Hence this study will attempt to take up only a few significant problems arising from a careful examination of various types of associations, concerning which problems some brief statements are in order.
First. In any voluntary association, the form of organization is important, but particularly so in the case of teachers' associations for they at present exhibit a very pronounced tendency to differentiate into minute subdivisions which specialize along very narrow lines of interest. This differentiation is especially worth noting because, according to a widely current view, it is the reason why teachers are less able than almost any other class, to co-operate.
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