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Kōrero: Primary and secondary education

Teachers and pupil-teachers

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Teachers and pupil-teachers

In the 19th century pupil-teachers – older students who taught younger children while themselves still studying – were employed on low wages to supplement the teaching workforce. In this 1896 photograph of the staff of College Street School, Palmerston North, pupil-teachers are on either end of each row.

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Palmerston North City Library

Reference: 2007N_Sc32_SCH_0403

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Nancy Swarbrick, Primary and secondary education – Teachers, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/36661/teachers-and-pupil-teachers (accessed 24 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Nancy Swarbrick, i tāngia i te 29 May 2012.