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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2007N_Sc32_SCH_0403
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