The Principal and His Duties to Himself, His Teachers, His Pupils and to Society
Abstract
The time is past when the Public will pay for a school, which has not justification for its being, other than the fact that it fills up the leisure of the students. We are living in an age of statistics and figures and results talk. Standards, therefore, have to be established and attained, if success of any sort is to be achieved in Education or in later life. The school with proper standards and direction is of primary importance.Strictly speaking the entire field of school administration belongs to the realm of business, embracing everything that is included in the daily routine of school. Hence the position of a principal in a school is similar to that of an executive officer in charge of any large concern. We may de- fine an executive as one who has the power to get things done; and consequently the principal of a school ought and should be the executive or the one to do or get things done. The principal does not have to do things himself, but rather plans and sees that his assistants do them.
Subject Area
Education|Educational administration
Recommended Citation
Cletus, "The Principal and His Duties to Himself, His Teachers, His Pupils and to Society" (1924). ETD Collection for Fordham University. AAI31097142.
https://research.library.fordham.edu/dissertations/AAI31097142
