hold the complementary certificate as the minimum of his educational level, and in addition to it a pedagogical diploma from a recognized school. And if we counted the men and women teachers who possess these qualifications in the government schools and the private schools, we should find them a tiny minority. And no doubt the failure of five thousand men and women teachers to form a syndicate to guarantee their rights is proof of how ill-prepared the majority of them are for this profession.
Let me sum up the reforms that must be carried out in this respect:
1 — The creation of sufficient schools to prepare men and women teachers for the elementary grades first, and for the secondary second. As for the professors of higher teaching in the universities, their specialization can be carried out abroad for a fixed period.
2 — Attention to preparing a sufficient number of inspectors and directors for elementary and secondary education, so that the Ministry of Education may be able to impose its supervision on the private schools. For this supervision will remain a name without substance so long as the Ministry lacks
the specialists capable of carrying out the work of supervision and inspection.
3 — Purging the schools gradually of the incompetent, that is, of those who hold no certificate of any kind and have no aptitude for progress and self-cultivation.
4 — Drawing up a law of wages and promotion that does justice to the teachers in the private and official schools, and enforcing the law of the minimum teacher's wage.
5 — Amending the law of sick compensation and the indemnities for dismissal and service in the teachers' statute so that it becomes at least the equal of what is in the Lebanese labor law.
These reforms are bound closely to the rest of the problems of education in Lebanon, especially to the problem of the private schools, since the condition of the teachers in these schools cannot be improved unless the government controls them in an effective manner — a subject which requires a study of its own.
The Preferred Milk for Your Child — Glaxo Milk
The Preferred Milk for Your Child
If your child must have milk other than your own, then know, Madam, that nothing is more complete as nourishment or richer in benefit than:
“Glaxo” Milk
GLAXO
It contains all the substances the child's body needs, above all iron and vitamin “D,” which:
1 — Ensures the child's steady growth
2 — Strengthens the limbs and teeth
Use Glaxo milk, Madam, for your child's nourishment, and you will find out for yourself and be assured that it is a pure, fresh milk, suited to all seasons, produced by the most modern scientific laboratories in England — so that it may rightly be said that it is the preferred food of every child...