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52 THE DAUGHTERS OF THE MIDDLE CLASSES.
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^ Remunerative And Honoeabie Employment ...
prises Reading , Grammar , Writing , English . Composition , Arithmetic , Geography , History , Scriptural Knowledge , Domestic EconomyYoeal
, Music , Drawing , and Needlework ; finally , the art of imparting to others what has been acquired in all these branches of education .
An objection has been made that parents would dislike placing their children as pupil-teachers in schools on account of the journey
to and from home ; but the necessity of this journey backwards and forwards might be obviated by an arrangement with the mistress for
board and lodging . Moreover , by a recent regulation of government , the Committee
of Council on Education have thrown open a limited number of Queen's scholarships to all competitors capable of passing the
necessary _examination , whether they have been pupil - teachers or not . Parents not desiring to place their children as pupil-teachers in
schools , or older persons desiring to qualify themselves as teachers in schools , could obtain the preliminary knowledge by study , either
under the care of a Certificated Schoolmistress who may be free to enter into such an arrangement out of school hours , or by receiving
instruction at schools specially adapted to prepare candidates for admission into Training Institutions . Such schools would easily be
found if required ; and as the course of instruction provides a sound useful education , it would be suitable to every condition of life , and
be would preferred qualify to a entering person to a Training teach in families School , and should taking that 1 ch occupation arge of a
National School . Tuition in private families must , however , only be regarded as an alternative before entering a training institution , for
the training * of each female costs the training institution between thirty-seven and forty pounds per annum . In the ease of Queen ' s
scholars this sum is wholly defrayed out of grants of the public money , and by private subscriptions , applicable only to the
preparation of mistresses for Elementary Schools . In the case of pupils who enter by the payment of twenty pounds annually , one half of the cost
is defrayed out of these funds ; so that no person can be admitted into a Training Institution except for the purpose for which these
public and private grants of money were made for its support . It is believed that were these points severally well understood ,
parents and others having the care of children , or women seeking employment , would more commonly than is now the case avail
themselves of the system in operation at the National Training Institutions : as offering means of support much superior to many of the
occupations followed by females ; whose habits and position in life rendering some of their callings unsuitable to them , either from their inability
to acquire the necessary proficiency in them late in life , or from being of too laborious a nature , necessarily limits their choice of
employment to a narrow circle , in which , from the number of competitors or their own inefficiency , the remunerationoften miserably
, scanty , is also uncertain ; and which , must be pursued by those
unaccustomed early to difficulties not unfrequently under circumstances
52 The Daughters Of The Middle Classes.
52 THE _DAUGHTERS OF THE MIDDLE CLASSES .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 1, 1860, page 52, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01031860/page/52/
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