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THE PROFESSION OF THE TEACHEE. 7
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The Annual Reports Of The Governesses' B...
houses which were guiltless of speculation or expense . And so we see on all handsthatwhile certain general laws can be discovered
which form the moral , , scheme of Providence , there come up individual tions day which cannot be settled by reference to
any such ques laws . every We know , as a matter of certainty , that the drunken workman will bring his children to hunger and cold;—yet we
clusions cannot , therefore as to the , le causes t the children which lie die at . the We root may of come the to difficulty fixed con of
earning a livelihood experienced by ladies;—yet we none the less have this generation of such ladies to care for , remembering the story
of the good Samaritan , who , when he saw that the stranger was woundeddid not stop to speculate on the best way of rendering
roads secure , from thieves , but went to him and hound up his wounds . We have entered on this dry explanation of what we conceive
to be the right way of viewing large public charities privately administered , because we believe there are many people of
firstrate intellect and conscience , alike among the rich and the poor , who recoil from the idea of giving or of receiving any material aid .
We believe , "with the whole might of our convictions , that for human creatures to help one another freely , when that love which
is the bread of life is given together with the bread that perisheth , honours both the giver and the receiverand can be degrading to
none . We have every reason to believe , that , in this particular instance of the Governesses' Benevolent InstitutiontLe greatest , the
, most sisterly tenderness and delicacy has been shown in the transactions between the society ( as represented by its lady members )
and the teachers , while the remarkable results obtained by the funds laced at their disposal prove the zealous attention which must
p have been bestowed upon the institution by experienced men ; and the mass of facts thus brought to light serve as a wise and
efficient basis of argument for those more diffusive efforts which will tend to cut off the evil at its sourceby directing the industry of
, educated women into other and more profitable channels . Let us now turn to this , after all , most important side of the
question , and see upon what point of certainty we can first fix our attention . It is the opinion of the gentleman who has for years
acted as honorary secretary , ( a post which has in this instance been anything but a mere name , ) and under whose observation all the
accumulated details of the various connected institutions have fallen , —it is his decided inion that the number of first-class governesses
is not greater than op the demand for their services , and that , although , taking this for granted , the salary of a woman of unusual
professional ability and attainment cannot rise higher than that of a small Government clerkat from 1001 . to 200 ? . a yearstill this sum can
be secured , and absolute , penury avoided . But , this supposes the governess to be highly accomplished according to the standard now
insisted upon by the " nobility and gentry , " to be well conversant
The Profession Of The Teachee. 7
THE PROFESSION OF THE TEACHEE . 7
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 1, 1858, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01031858/page/7/
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