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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 657 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PUPIL (See also:Lat. pupillus, See also:orphan, See also:minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from See also:root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " See also:doll," the name given to the See also:stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain See also:insects)  , properly a word taken from See also:Roman See also:law for one below the See also:age of See also:puberty (impubes), and not under patria potestas, who was under the See also:protection of a See also:tutor, a See also:ward or See also:minor (see See also:INFANT; and ROMAN LAW) . The See also:term was thus taken by the See also:Civil Law and Scots Law for a See also:person of either See also:sex under the age of puberty in the care of a See also:guardian . Apart from these technical meanings the word is generally used of one who is undergoing instruction or See also:education by a teacher . In education the term " See also:pupil-teacher " is applied to one who, while still receiving education, is engaged in teaching in elementary See also:schools . The See also:system was introduced into See also:England from See also:Holland about 1840 . At first the education which the pupil-teachers received was given at the schools to which they were attached . During the last See also:quarter of the 19th See also:century was See also:developed a system of " pupil-teacher centres " where training and education was given .

End of Article: PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)
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