| Abstract: | The present study is concerned with the perception by teachers of the value attributed to their profession, the social prestige accorded them as teachers, and the influences of these on their desire to persist in or withdraw from teaching. The study was carried out in the Republic of Liberia from November 1968 to January 1969 and covered 153 teachers from 21 randomly selected high schools in all the nine counties of the country. The 21 schools account for about 58% of all high schools in the country and the 153 teachers account for about 35% of all the high school teachers. The relationships found between value and respect in school, community, and country on the one hand and the desire to persist in teaching on the other, suggest that the two variables of value and prestige can offset, to a large extent, the inadequacies of purely monetary rewards and thus have the potential of inducing the teacher either to persist in teaching or withdraw from it. Notes, tab. |
Education in Africa 
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