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    176 TUITION OR TRADE ?

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    occupation iC genteel" for than no business other reason . Thus than tuition that is it Is undertaken presumed b to y be persons more

    monest the majority pursuits of . whom On , this are point perhaps , therefore scarcely , we qualified dissent from for those the com who

    persist in maintaining that teaching is peculiarly a woman ' s calling . As regards training , ( which may be apart from be mer intrusted e teaching with , )

    mothers are commonly understood to be unfit to the the case management of widows of their where sons such after care the necessaril early age falls of seven to the ; mother and in y ,

    it has been remarked , that the boys frequently turn out either milksops or spendthrifts . But worse than this , does it not sometimes happen

    when the father lives , that the pet son is shielded by the mother from wholesome rebuke by concealing his errors , until the errors

    become vices , and the youth is lost , morally and physically , to the astonishment of the motherwho marvels how a child so caressed

    , in and silence indulged the c overthrow ould turn of out his so hopes worthless and the , while wreck the of father his son mourns ? To

    fit women , whether married or single , to train youth as youth ought to be trainedmuch must be altered in female education , and then it

    may be more , correctly ascertained how far and how many of the sex connection are adapted with by nature the education for this of office daug . hters The miserliness as contrasted of parents -with their in

    teachers liberal outlay are well in the commented case of eons on , b as the well writer as , the in inefficiency i ( Fraser" of and female here

    , y , we It cordiall would y be agree an with immense him . stride onwards in social improvement

    were the respective classes enumerated by the writer to whom we refer sideration , to reflect the importance upon the advice of a reform tendered so them urgentl , and y demanded to take into . It con is

    needless at present to discuss the question , whether private tuition carried on for years by a governess be more desirable for girl-pupils

    than the hardier system of public instruction to which almost every hoy allude is to turne boarding d over -schools after the but tender to classes years of for childhood general instruction . . We , do , not to

    , which girls may have access while residing with their parents . Acquiring information is only a part of education , and is , in fact , the

    lesser and easier part . Doubtless , in process of time , better methods both for imparting

    knowledge and for education will be found out and adopted ; since almost observeras well as thinkeradmits that our fashion , as

    now followed every in the bring , ing up of girls , , is pernicious . Neither is it desirable to dilate on the sufferings of governesses , or to throw all

    the blame on the employers . Faults there are on both sides ; nevertheless , their discomforts and miseries are manifold , and therefore it

    is that we would deter , rather than encourage , the . general run of women from selecting such a career for a livelihood .

    young To emigrate , and seek in other lands the homes not to be found in

    their own , would , in a majority of instances , prove a wiser and ,

    176 Tuition Or Trade ?

    176 TUITION OR TRADE ?

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 1, 1860, page 176, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01051860/page/32/