Influential roles in the educational process

The modern schoolmaster is not an isolated professional unit who sits behind a desk, engaged in clerical work and issuing instructions to a loyal group of obedient workers. Rather, he is, first and foremost, an expert at encouraging people to do their best in accomplishing the difficult tasks of the school. This is not an easy task, but it requires great courage, skill and dedication. In the following pages, Dr. Prestwood, the international educational expert, draws from his vast resources - as an authority in this field - and from his experience as a teacher and a working man in the school administration, to provide us - with knowledge - a practical approach to solving many of the problems that challenge those who teach together in secondary schools. These are delicate and crucial problems for the success of schools. They are also important for sincere, intelligent, and creative men who consider teaching as a mission rather than a means of earning a living. They are problems for people who want to work together in an atmosphere consistent with the goals of education.