The Relation Of Social Factors To Teaching Ability

For a half century or more educators have been asking the question, What makes a good teacher? Numerous efforts have been made to answer it, but we are still uncertain about the answer. Almost every school child as well as every educator thinks that he is able to distinguish a good teacher from a poor one. Formerly it was assumed that such judg ment by the expert administrator was a valid criterion of teaching ability. More recently it has become apparent that experts do not agree in their decisions. This has been followed by attempts to discover more objective criteria.