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OF THE MIDDLE CLASSES. 51
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^ Remunerative And Honoeabie Employment ...
In the report of the minutes of the Committee of Council on Education for 1856-7 it is stated that the average emoluments from all
, professional sources for certificated _** Schoolmistresses are seventy-one pounds per annum in the metropolitan district , and about fifty-nine
pounds twelve shillings in the country . In more than half the cases cases houses retiring are provided 1 pensions rent are -free allowed ; and b it y the will government be seen that . But in certain out of
the ordinary resources a careful person would be enabled to yearly lay by for the wants of after-lifeor purchase an annuity according
, to a table prepared by the government ; especially as in more than half the cases houses are provided rent-free for schoolmistresses .
This usual provision of a house renders the position of the National Schoolmistress one of great respectability , and of a desirable
character for well-educated persons . Any person can enter or place a girl in a training school upon
a payment not exceeding twenty pounds . The age at which pupils are now admitted into training schools varies froin seventeen to
twenty-five . The qualifications for admission are—a good and reliious charactera knowledge of _needletcorlcthe ability to spell correctly
from g dictation , ' to , read English prose with , propriety , to write a good handto _tcorh out the fundamental rules of arithmeticand to be _tvett
acquainted , with the outlines of Scripture history _. , This necessary preliminary instruction , though simple , must be
sound and not superficial . It is noticeable , that very few persons , when by unforeseen circumstances deprived of their former means of
support , present themselves as candidates to take charge of schools ; and of these fewonly a very small number are able to pass the
, necessary examination . This latter fact suggests a strong presumptive evidence that there exists some radical and serious defect in the
general management of girls' schools ; a circumstance calculated to create great anxietyas being- of vital moment to the _relig-ious and
, moral welfare of all classes . The preparation necessary for admission into Training Schools is
usually obtained by placing a girl of not more than fourteen in an . elementary school where she may be apprenticed as a pupil-teacher .
The apprenticeship lasts Rve years , during which time the pupil receives from government an annual payment , beginning with ten
pounds , and increasing every year to twenty pounds ; and after that she may , if found competent Iby examination , obtain a Queen's
scholarship , which entitles her to a free exhibition to a _training school for two yearsduring which , time she would permanently reside
, in the institution , except during * the vacations at Midsummer and Christmas . If she passes through the institution with credit to
herself , she is then sure to be appointed to a school . The course of instruction during the iive years' apprenticeship
comschoolmistresses * This paper has More not detailed "been drawn inform up ation with reference all poin to tsw _iincertificated ill be found
in the minutes of . the Committee of Council , 1856 upon -7 , page 66 . . *
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Of The Middle Classes. 51
OF THE MIDDLE CLASSES . 51
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 1, 1860, page 51, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01031860/page/51/
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