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V as two in regard as to arithmetic teacher in . Tie a school writer intended knows a person to who had irls passed for prepare g
governesses years , who yet could not be trusted to write an ordinary business letteron account of the frequent grammatical errors she-
com-, better mitted ; instructed and as it than is reasonable herselfwe to suppose conclude that her that pup none ils were of them no
, may could take a situation as corresponding * clerk . It is easy , however , to find a test by which this last point be ascertained . Let any
may good grammarian request his children ' s governess to parse a sentence out of a bookand her manner of doing it will at once prove
, her L capabilities et us now examine . whether this ignorance proceeds from
imbecility , or is the result of inferior instruction . It is the general ther l op of inion Germany , like that of the schoolmasters tura women g l irls inferiori are are the ty who commonl ; quickest and teach abroad boys em at calculation loyed , and both g as irls cashiers F , rance in which classes and in does shops toge part no ® t -
and as ticket , clerks at small railway y stations p . French governesses , , too-will almost always be found capable of laining the rules of
their , own language , thus surely showing tha exp t there is no peculiar ititude in the female mind for understanding grammar and
nap accoun erl ts We , but think simpl t y that that Eng it lish women be fairl are conc not l taug uded h t t them t the pro one - y
p great y . and serious impediment , , to may the general employment of women in situations reuirineducation and intelliis the general
inferiority of the instruction qg they receive . Their gence great , misfortune is that they are iven no special training . This is not the case with men . If
g a a boy trade has . to At earn fourteen his own a living lad must , lies is decide educated whether for a he profession will be or a
sailor or an artilleryman , that he may receive the requisite instructionA man who intends to enter the medical profession must study
. for three years . Very few men who have been educated for one profession are capable of turning to other . A few of
remarkany able energy and talent have done so ; but , as a general rule , a man must go on as he has begun . A man who has been educated for
lawyer the those church who would would have be received puzzle not make d to what a exp good lain is merchant calle the d accounts a ' s general clerk of , and a education bank a first ; while -rate are
usuall Now y found this kind incapable of teaching of any wMch profession with or men emp is loyment the exception whatever . is
, , with women the rule . The education they receive is invariably general _. With regard to the daughters of the aristocracy and of the
more wealthy portion of the middle classes , it is perfectly just and reasonable that it should be so ; for they are provided for , and will
never have to struggle for bread . The object of their education is , of as societ it oug y ht , and to be a , sli to ght render acquaintance them agreea with ble several and int s elli ubjects gent m will em tend bers
to produce this effect far more than a thorough , knowledge of a few *
864 On The Obstacles To The
864 ON THE OBSTACLES TO THE
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 1, 1860, page 364, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01021860/page/4/
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