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    MIDDLE CLASS SCHOOLS FOR GIRLS. 171

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    It Is Very Easy To Find Fault With Our N...

    One of tlie greatest evils is tlie insufficient rooin and ventilation ; to make tliese cheap schools pay-it is necessary to cram the children

    as close as possible , and the rooms of a common small dwellinghouse not fit or healthfor a school . This * is a very serious

    consideration are ; for children cannot y learn in an impure atmosphere , the vitiated air makes them feverish or drowsy , cross or stupid . A sent his

    chemist in a small street in London being asked where he the children school , said in , question " Oh ! to it the was piou found s old th girl at next the do mistress or . " On had examining been the

    teacher of a National , School , but gave it up because the work was mu too ch hard — Q d ( . she a week said ) , an and d extr started a for a gr school ammar charg and ing other three things times . as It

    was curious to see , the inefficient or incapable teacher raising her price teach because anything of the her pup inefficiency ils wanted or to learn incaj ) , acit her y h ! ouse She w professed as cramme bodies to d

    with was In any disorderl country thing towns y but children pleasant we have , an . d known the . emanations families of from sisters so left many destitute ,,

    and 6 d . starting 9 d . and private Is . a week schools , honestl without y confessing any training that their at all instruction , and charg was ing

    not This , so good , class as just that above of the the monitors laboring in one a which common touches National it , influences is School . **

    sure the latter and sound more way than of the hel hi ping gher the branches lower classes can do , , to and educate it a those very who are richer than themselves , but in immediate contact with them . indeed be

    To and great g simp ive boon good le . in If their sense we could tastes and make refinement , inste these ad of women to leaving this and hi class them gh-minded woul to be shallow d , broug intelli ht gent up a ,

    to contact accomp vanit lishment y with , false those ideas , it would above of what indeed them is lad is be y just - a like blessing of , that every ! external At present character , showy their

    which causes them to imitate their dress , and the vanities and follies of those they call real ladies . Although they touch the lowest , they

    the aim past at pushing history their of Eng way lish into societ the y , upper they will classes inevitabl , and y , jud accomp ging lish by educate them

    their aim . It is , therefore , of vital importance to in rig I this htl will y subject and now hig take oug hly ht . for to granted prove it ( for thoug himself h everyone by inspection who is ) interested , that the

    assisted existing by schools Government for the . middle The difficult class are question bad , and then worse arises than , how those to provide better .

    cation dau * g If hters any the , she y will will kmen p take robabl she the y find trouble lo that to The they learn gardener are something not receivin ' s d of hter g her so tradespeop will good prob an edu abl les y - _*

    probably write , as read receivin , and wor g sum a more better practical emp than ys the . and grocer . solid e ' s ducation or butcher aug than 's the children class , a grade is

    above for less than half the price .

    Middle Class Schools For Girls. 171

    MIDDLE CLASS SCHOOLS FOR GIRLS . 171

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 1, 1860, page 171, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01111860/page/27/