The image of teachers through the eyes of authors of pedagogical books from the age of dualism
The image of teachers through the eyes of authors of pedagogical books from the age of dualism

Summary/Abstract: We can state that 19th century educational books draft a lot of similar expectations towards the ideal teacher. Most of the analysed educational handbooks and textbooks distinguish the human beings from the other creations. The idea of human perfection characteristic to the Humanism is recalled in these books, where the authors consider the human beings as the highest level creatures which are different from any other creature of the world, both physically and mentally. It is visible from the above mentioned that the efficiency of education is based on the educator’s suitability for the teacher’s profession. The pedagogical handbooks and textbooks provide a separate chapter to the required qualities of teachers. The teachers’ required qualities are listed from the physical qualities, behaviour, and sense of vocation to the life style. The authors believe that successful teaching can be achieved by pedagogical competence and they prefer knowledge and skill to emotional features. They think it is necessary to love the profession, to be educated and methodologically trained as the main features of the ideal teacher but moral features, knowledge of children and love of children are important parts of a teacher’s profession. Analysing the educational textbooks we can see that the picture of teacher emerging from the works consists of the whole range of expectations.

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