A teacher is someone who communicates information or skill so that someone else may learn. Parents are the {{U}}(51) {{/U}} teachers. Just by living with their child and {{U}}(52) {{/U}} their everyday activities with him, they teach him their language, their values and their manners. Information and skills difficult to teach {{U}}(53) {{/U}} family living are taught in a school by a person {{U}}(54) {{/U}} special occupation is teaching.
Before 1900 it {{U}}(55) {{/U}} widely assumed that a man was qualified to teach if he could read and write and {{U}}(56) {{/U}} qualified if he knew arithmetic. With modest {{U}}(57) {{/U}} like these, it is no {{U}}(58) {{/U}} that teachers had low salaries and little prestige. Literature and history frequently portray teachers {{U}}(59) {{/U}} fools and ignoramuses.
By the late 19th century, there were {{U}}(60) {{/U}} that the status of teachers was slowly {{U}}(61) {{/U}}. Great educators such as Mann and Henry Barnard, and innovative thinkers such as Dewey and Parker began to command a {{U}}(62) {{/U}} that in a few decades had to some {{U}}(63) {{/U}} permeated classrooms in the United States. Progress was more glacial than meteoric, however,{{U}} (64) {{/U}} the last half of the century.
In the 20th century the status of teachers rose as the standards {{U}}(65) {{/U}} their education rose. By 1950 the average teacher had an education that greatly exceeded that of the average citizen.