Department for Education and Skills figures show that in the UK in 2001 there were 27, 400 male and 141, 000 female primary school teachers.

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My male high school journalism teacher taught me to write and most of my female English teachers gave me a love of literature that is one of the mainstays of my spiritual life to this day.

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