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qualities of the compound. All good teaching involves research, 

 all good research involves teaching. Faraday was at once a 

 great inquirer and a great teacher, and in lesser degree every 

 inquirer is a great teacher, every teacher is an inquirer. The 

 professor, reader, lecturer, or tutor who fulfils his task as a 

 mechanical repeater of dicta and dogmata is of hardly greater 

 value than a text-book read aloud. The teacher who is also 

 an active searcher and learner reacts upon his pupils with the 

 convincing power of reality and of example ; the combining 

 power of his thought is that of active thought — thought in its 

 nascent state. 



University Research Fellowships. — It is to the credit of the 

 new University of London that in the official recognition of its 

 teachers the first qualification required on behalf of any man 

 or woman who asks to be recognised as a University teacher 

 is evidence of ability to increase knowledge by his own in- 

 vestigations — and further, that in the case of young teachers, 

 where proof of such ability has not yet been given but may 

 reasonably be expected, a system has been adopted of " recog- 

 nition on probation " for a limited time, provided that the 

 conditions of work are such as to permit the " probationer " to 

 fulfil his promise and give proof of his ability to acquire 

 knowledge at first hand by his own investigation. This 

 excellent system might well be further developed; the active 

 young teacher in a polytechnic, on a minimum salary of £150 

 and a maximum teaching time of 500 hours, would feel that 

 the University was indeed helping and not hindering his efforts 

 if his " probationary recognition " not merely required conditions 

 protecting him in his own interest from over-teaching at an 

 under-wage, but actually carried with it conditions forwarding 

 his self-development and justifying his sense of fellowship in 

 and loyalty to the University in which he is recognised. A 

 11 minor research fellowship " of £50 from the University chest, 

 added to a teacher's salary of £150, would be in every way an 

 appropriate and a remunerative expenditure of University funds ; 

 its direct return would be secured in the form of a higher 

 average teaching power, apart from the accidental and incal- 

 culable return in the form of exceptional genius helped to 

 earlier distinction, under conditions more favourable than at 

 present to the mental development of the teacher during the 



