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    220 ON THE EDUCATION OF GIRLS,

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    «. The It Is Female Encouraging Tion 1 T...

    to be taught . Let him , as a test , request her to work a sum and to write a letterwhen her deficiencies will at once become apparent .

    It is of course possible , that a few good private schools may be found , but as a general rule the result of an examination will be

    unsatisfactory in the extreme . I . have known a grown-up girl who had scho not gone do ol as a who far sum as had in practice been multip in lication considerable one of , and these time a establishments younger at long one division , from who yet yet another could could

    a , _^ not In add short h correctl less , the to y obj . ive ect a good of the education managers to of the these scholars schools than is , naturall to make y

    enoug , g teach money complishments and for themselves , to which learn . , compared Thi and s which is effected to are useful therefore by instruction advertising popular , are showy with easy the ac to

    pupils themselves easy ; and , they trust that the superficial character of what little solid teaching they _j ) rofess to give will not be discovered

    for by t the he parents fathers , are a confidence generally which too busy is usuall to attend y perfectl to their y well daug p hters laced '

    education , and the mothers , having been no better taught themselves _^ the are It incapable same is prob class able of would finding that be the out equall educ deficien ation bad g cies iven if . they in private were not boys held ' schools in check of

    y b Thus y the these number schools of endowed are useful schools not which onl exist from all the over good the education country . y

    they afford in themselves , but also , in compelling the private ones to keep Now up this to their is an mark advantage to a considerable irls do not extent possess . and it is to this I

    believe that the inferiority of g the instruction they , receive is owing , there being nothing by which to test whether it is good or

    worthless . The pu _| _3 ils from Miss Brown ' s may perhaps be compared to the ils from Miss Jones ' sbut as they are probably about equally

    ill taug pup ht nothing , is elicited , by the comparison . What is required in every town is a good female middle-class school , endowed if

    possible , but at any rate under the management of educated persons of but the hi to g afford her ranks an , education the object which of whi would ch should be be of practical not to make use money to the ,

    pup Such ils in a after school life would . be most valuable in itselfbut the greatest

    benefit conferred by it would be to serve as a standard , by which to measure the education iven in private schoolsthus compelling

    an improvement in the instruction g . It need not cost , more than £ 40 to set up a school on this principle , —if the rooms were hired only ,

    not built , —and in a few months it would probably , if well managed , become As prevention self-supporting is better . than cureiven for this purpose

    would be at least as well bestowed as , that money which g is spent in relieving the distress or mitigating the evils which the want of such

    educational establishments has occasioned .

    220 On The Education Of Girls,

    220 ON THE EDUCATION OF GIRLS ,

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1860, page 220, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121860/page/4/