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the increase in remuneration of scientific workers which may have made it 
unnecessary for many to seek evening work to supplement their salaries. 
(2) ‘ The rapid advance in all branches of science over the period under 
review ’ which ‘ may have tended to make the scientific worker obsessed 
with the pressing problems of his own job and little inclined to commit 
himself to popular audiences ; willing to deal with specialised matter to 
a University class, but not to a popular audience.’ 
On the other hand, those writing on behalf of the Local Education 
Authorities of London and Leicestershire, of the Extra-mural Departments 
of Bristol, Manchester, and Liverpool, of the Y.M.C.A., consider that at 
present the supply of suitable teachers is adequate for the demand. 
With these conflicting opinions it is difficult to arrive at a just estimate, 
but it may be noted that on one side reference is mainly made to the 
supply of teachers to meet an increased demand; on the other, to the 
supply of existing demand for science studies. Another opinion is that 
there is a wider and more numerous field for the selection of teachers where 
only lectures are required, than where tutorial work is to be undertaken ; 
a man who is quite a successful lecturer may not necessarily be so happy in 
the more intimate and less formal work of a tutorial class. 
From the Extra-mural Delegacy at Oxford, Rev. F. E. Hutchinson 
makes the practical suggestion that : 
“A panel of teachers suitable for adult classes in various sciences might 
be drawn up by the British Association, and that the University Committees 
should be allowed to communicate with the secretary of the panel when 
particular demands arise.’ 
4. Qualifications and Characteristics of Teachers suitable for Adult Classes. 
Much evidently depends on what are considered to be the characteristics 
and qualifications of a suitable teacher. It is always possible to get plenty 
of teachers of various types, but it is another matter to attract men or women 
of the exceptional type required for the successful handling of science 
courses in Adult Education. Dr. Brierley (Reading U.) requires ‘ a man 
of personality and imagination, with a gift of speaking, and wide human 
interests in addition to his equipment of scientific knowledge, capable of 
always interesting a public audience even if discussing quite technical 
problems, of seeing things from their angle and in their perspective, possess- 
ing the power of speaking accurately, yet rather pictorially in simple, 
every-day language, always illustrating by facts and phenomena of everyday 
life and common experience, of speaking clearly and articulating his words 
distinctly, and of presenting his matter in a simple, logical form, so that 
connecting links are always clear.’ 
Dr. A. J. Grove (London) expresses similar views in a slightly different 
way : 
“The tutor of a tutorial class has to be something very much more than 
a mere purveyor of facts, scientific or otherwise. His business is not so 
much to instil facts into the students’ minds as to cultivate an attitude of 
mind. A purely academic attitude on the part of the tutor is worse than 
useless in adult classes. In addition to a wide knowledge of his subject 
and a facility of presentation, it is important that he should have a wide 
experience of men and affairs, an outlook beyond the scope of his immediate 
topic, and be keenly alive to points of contact between the matter he is dealing 
with and everyday life.’ 
The problem is how to find such men, and when found how to induce 
them to devote their services to the Adult Movement. The problem 
