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    TUITION OR TRADE? 175

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    As Cate This The Emp Journal Loyment Is ...

    be is of not owing governesses so " nlucli to that ation demanded be mo so de have great of ; emp and as loyment lie is he likewise represented ard . it With questioned doubts by regard if us the , but to or sufferings the it if is they in u -

    disputable of this occup that the we numbers never engaged therein enormousl ; y exceed the demandand we demur to the dogma that all women are intended

    by To Nature whatever , to be positive teachers extent . the training of the young may be a certain that the

    part extent of is woman either ' s exaggerated natural vocation or uncertain , it seems . The office of as teacher yet is

    speciality as truly a ; vocation and whil peculiar e we find onl som y to e women certain fitted individuals mothers for the as duty utterl any by other

    inqualified clination for and its ability performance , we meet Maternal on the other instinct hand will doubtless always y

    un-. but ende while avor to it is imp both art ri some ht and instruction natural to that children the mother of tender and her years off- ; g

    partiality spring should blinds associate the mother together -teacher , it is to too the often true found interest that s parental of her

    childrenand in some instances the mother only cares to amuse herself with , themwhile the work of instruction devolves on others .

    by It education may be admitted for , the office that onl of y teacher the few ; yet are there even properl must likewise y qualified be in

    taken into account the amount of instruction demanded , consegreater quence sides the of than the constant variet be y efficientl superintendence of accomp performed lishments of by pup required one ils woman : tasks to be who notoriousl taug is ht , thus be y -

    can y , or expected two to ils train but , educate sometimes , and of take half entire -a-dozen charge , and , not frequentl merely y of at one a

    low pup scale , of remuneration . No tutor is ever asked to undertake be t very be his found able " Jack to qu perform -ofrail alified -trades to these do " so sorts position . It of is feats , neither only women In were the case who he of asked are female expected would educa he to

    -. tion there may be less that is worth the name of teaching , but this has whirring nothing of the to do mental with mill the - actual wheel labor It would demanded be b — etter the both constant for

    . faculties that teacher would and the necessitate pup exertion il , if the a mi little instruction ht more be greater vi to gorous be for imparted a working time , were but of there of the a mental nature would g

    not be that ; incessant " much ado about nothing / ' which produces , in the long-run , ennui , weariness , and indolence . A change the of opinion it

    in oug this ht to direction be encouraged cannot , we , as thin a £ means , be regretted of preventing ; on parents contrary from , bringing up their daughters , no matter in what rank of teachers life , no

    matter misses Hundreds who whether —nay call , _iitted themselves we may either say nursery by thousands nature governesses or , if culture we , include , and to be tak the e in little all . wlioin such

    grades miracles up of tuition to the reall are y expected accomp - — lished enter woman on this , , grav from e and serious

    Tuition Or Trade? 175

    TUITION OR TRADE ? 175

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 1, 1860, page 175, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01051860/page/31/