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duties of an inspector of elementary schools, and 
they describe them in terms which, mutatis mutandis, 
are still applicable. They certainly regarded in- 
spectors as a great deal more than peripatetic 
masters of method.” It is clear that in their view 
‘““other and higher qualifications” were required 
in a competent inspector than expertness in the 
craft or technique of teaching, and that in the 
selection of inspectors professional qualifications 
could not be predominant. 
In recent years the teaching experience of candi- 
dates has certainly not been disregarded in the 
selection of inspectors; many of them have had 
long and distinguished records as teachers, and the 
teaching profession is the main though not the 
exclusive recruiting ground of the inspectorate. 
Recently recruitment from the teaching profession 
has been considerably embarrassed by the rise in 
teachers’ salaries, consequent on the activities of 
the “Burnham” Committees and by the liberal 
provision of pensions for them. By its own action 
in these respects the State has raised the market 
against itself. At the same time the Board does 
not take the view that selection for and promotion 
in the inspectorate should be determined solely or 
primarily by pedagogical considerations, or that the 
best teacher necessarily makes the best inspector. 
The more comprehensive the service of education 
grows, the longer and wider the vistas which are 
opened up, the more closely the different stages 
and branches of education are organised in relation 
to each other, and the broader the lines on which 
it is administered, the more important it becomes