pupil teachern.

1644 J. Milton Areopagitica 22 And how can a man teach with autority, which is the life of teaching..whenas all he teaches, all he delivers, is but under the tuition, under the correction of his patriarchal licencer... When every acute reader upon the first sight of a pedantick licence, will be ready with these like words to ding the book a coits distance from him, I hate a pupil teacher, I endure not an instructer that comes to me under the wardship of an overseeing fist.

1838 J. P. Kay in 4th Ann. Rep. Poor Law Commissioners App. B. No. 3. 152 in Parl. Papers 1837–8 XXVIII. 145 In the normal school at Haarlem..certain of the more intelligent scholars..were selected from the rest to be trained to the occupation of teachers... Those pupil teachers would constantly acquire a greater degree of skill and knowledge.

1846 Minutes Comm. Council Educ. (1847) I. 21 Dec. 2 To carry into execution the Minute of the Committee of Council on Education of the 25th day of August, 1846, respecting the Apprenticeship of Pupil Teachers. [In the Minute of 25 Aug. called ‘apprentices’.]

1861 M. Arnold Pop. Educ. France 108 Pupil-teachers—the sinews of English primary instruction, whose institution is the grand merit of our English State system, and its chief title to public respect.

1884 Christian World 19 June 453/2 The pupil-teacher, as a rule, we fear, learns little and teaches less.

1934 W. W. Gill Manx Dial. ii. 19 A pupil of the Abbot's is bound to a Chester schoolmaster as pupil-teacher and servant.

1990 New Yorker 31 Dec. 98/1 Stanley had a brief, relatively happy period as a pupil-teacher in the village school.

2004 Times Educ. Suppl. (Nexis) 2 July 18 Pupil teachers were often exploited by heads, who..gave them no proper training.

1884 Times 20 Sept. 6/2 Their pupil teacher candidates were mere elder scholars without much education, and they tried to teach first and gained their own knowledge afterwards.

1906 Daily Chron. 29 Nov. 6/6 A compulsory subject..for pupil-teacher candidates.

1940 Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 5 Oct. 20/1 (advt.) Successful 2nd, 3rd Year Pupil Teacher candidates to take advantage of a wonderful opportunity.

1853 Littell's Living Age 28 May 531/2 The same advantage will no doubt result from the creation of the pupil-teacher system; the greatest educational reform which has ever been made in this country.

1897 Daily News 13 Jan. 5/3 A Committee to inquire into the working of the pupil-teacher system in England and Wales.

1990 J. Meyers D.H. Lawrence iv. 35 The pupil teacher system..provided small stipends for apprentices who taught in the lower forms.

1884 Times 16 June 6/2 Dr. Gladstone, F.R.S., a member of the London School Board, who was present during the whole of one inquiry at a pupil teacher centre.

1907 Westm. Gaz. 22 July 2/1 There are, at this moment, some 20,000 pupil-teachers, of the ages 16 to 18, attending institutions called pupil-teachers' centres.

2003 Times Educ. Suppl. (Nexis) 19 Dec. 29 Another describes how she lived in a rural area and had to attend an evening session at a pupil-teacher centre in town.

1902 Westm. Gaz. 14 Apr. 2/2 It should be noted that the London School Board have just had surcharged the cost of their pupil-teacher training-centres.

2000 This is Lancashire (Nexis) 21 Sept. That building has always been associated with education, it was a Ragged School during the week and then it was a pupil teacher training centre.

1886 Times 8 Oct. 4/6 The whole of ‘the cream’ of pupil teacherdom rises to the surface in London only, and nothing but ‘skimmed milk’ is left in the provinces.

1941 PMLA 56 293 What may be classed as hyphenated compounds..include Anglo-Saxondom, devil-may-caredom, lower-twentydom, pupil-teacherdom, Yankee-Doodledom, and a dozen or so others.

1890 W. E. Henley Views & Rev. 132 Herself [sc. George Eliot], too, has been variously described: as ‘Apotheosis of Pupil-Teachery’.