Mr George Walker McLean
- Position
- Member Centenary Committee
- Year of death
- 1957
- Plaque number
- FA23
- Dedicated by
- Kings Park Board on 29 September 1929
- More information
Biography abstract:
Mr George Walker McLean (1877 - 24/5/1957) was born into a large family in Beaufort, Victoria and came to Western Australia in 1897.
Mr McLean was a member of the WA Teachers Strike Committee in 1920 that fought for better pay and conditions for Western Australian teachers.
A newspaper article from 1922 identified Mr McClean as saying that a fatal flaw in the education system at the time "sprang from the fact that mentally a child was often unequally developed. He might be good at mathematics but weak in English, and vice versa. The solution of this problem, it seemed to him, was to abolish the class teacher in favour of the subject teacher."
He was principal of East Victoria Park, the largest primary school in Western Australia at the time of the Centenary celebrations. He was president of the teacher's union four times, retiring in 1938 after 41 years service in the Education Department.
Mr George McLean was a member of the Western Australian Centenary Committee in 1929.