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 medical man—a medical officer, for example—will do for this work, he naturally feels that while he, himself, is a beginner, the majority of doctors have not even begun fairly to consider the needs of the schools. He feels that though there is no college for school doctors, no chair, no Minister of Public Education, even, yet there is a new science of education. This is his discovery; or rather it is the discovery of the many doctors who have taken part for forty years or more in the study of the brain and the study of school children.

If the expert medical officer begins this work, he certainly cannot begin it as an expert. He may learn rapidly, but still he is a beginner. This will mean that he makes a sacrifice.

One does not begin, as one of the youngest apprentices, by receiving a large salary.