pupil-teacher

…also expanded and improved the pupil-teacher system, in which intellectually promising youths (aged 13–18) simultaneously taught in elementary schools and received secondary education from the heads of those schools. Kay-Shuttleworth’s health collapsed in 1848, and upon his retirement he was created a baronet. He continued to promote British public education…

…that replaced monitors with “pupil-teachers”—i.e., boys and girls who, at the age of 13, were apprenticed for a period of five years, during which time they learned the art of teaching while continuing their education under the head teacher of an elementary school. Some such programs developed into normal…