Another aspect of the reform of the teacher's role and image involved the level and nature of payment for teaching services. Teaching salaries had to be raised enough to allow the teacher to subsist (and since the ideal was for him to become a family man—his family, as well) without the need to resort to those side-occupations now considered to be demeaning. Furthermore, the teacher had to be assured of that income without relying on the goodwill of the community. Such dependency, so much a feature of the older, decentralized structure of school arrangements, was unsuitable once the teachers were expected to project an image that set them apart from the community and transformed them into state functionaries.

— Schooling in Western Europe by Mary Jo Maynes (Page 67)