A teacher is someone who communicates information or skill so that someone else may learn. Parents are the{{U}} (41) {{/U}}teachers. Just by living with their child and{{U}} (42) {{/U}}their everyday activities with him, they teach him their language, their values and their manners. Information and skills difficult or teach{{U}} (43) {{/U}}family living are taught in a school by a person{{U}} (44) {{/U}}special occupation is teaching.
Before 1900 it{{U}} (45) {{/U}}widely assumed that a man was qualified to teach if he could read and write-and{{U}} (46) {{/U}}qualified if he knew arithmetic. With modest{{U}} (47) {{/U}}like these, it is no{{U}} (48) {{/U}}that teachers had low salaries and little prestige. Literature and history frequently portray teacher{{U}} (49) {{/U}}fools and ignoramuses.
By the late 19th century, there were{{U}} (50) {{/U}}that the starts of teachers was slowly{{U}} (51) {{/U}}Great educators such as Mann and Henry Barnard, and innovative thinkers such as Dewey and Parker began to command a{{U}} (52) {{/U}}that in a few decades had to some{{U}} (53) {{/U}}permeated classrooms in the United States. Progress was more glacial than meteoric, however,{{U}} (54) {{/U}}the last half of the century.
In the 20th century the starts of teachers rose as the standards{{U}} (55) {{/U}}their education rose. By 1950 the average teacher had an education that greatly exceeded that of the average citizen.