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THE striking facts and figures given in the presidential address recently delivered by Mr. T. H. J. Underdown to the National Union of Teachers, and published in NATURE of April 19, show that the whole fabric of our primary educational systern is seriously threatened with disaster. Unhappily, the sepondary and technical schools of the country are faced with the same danger from precisely. the same causes. The systematic underpayment of the teachers and the resultant shortage of the supply must cause grave misgivings to all who have a real conception of the value of a good secondary education and its necessity, if success is to be achieved in the future in the various branches of commercial and scientific activity. Our national efficiency depends to a large degree upon the quality of our secondary education, and any such education worthy of the name will be impossible unless the present conditions of service obtaining in the teaching profession are?adically and speedily altered.
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DUNKERLEY, G., BLADES, A. The Pay and Supply of Teachers . Nature 99, 194–195 (1917). https://doi.org/10.1038/099194a0
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