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    24 ENDOWED SCHOOLS,

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    same before any new schools for boys of tMs class are built and endowed .

    In the list of scholars at Grammar schools , the difference is still _greater , the number of boys being 31 , 528 and of girls 3 , 374 , barely

    a tenth . The reason here is evident : these schools were founded for the

    purpose of giving a cheap classical education , a kind of teaching which would have been of no use to girls , and from which they were

    therefore excluded ; and though the classical education has now become very generally a secondary object , comparatively few boys

    going eventually to college , yet the foundations being as a general rule originally intended for boys only , they are rightly kept

    exclusively for them . But this exclusion from all means of obtaining a good education

    falls heavily on the sisters of tlie boys who are taught at these schools , for girls of this rank can seldom or ever be provided for

    hy their parents , but must after their father ' s death , and sometimes before , earn their bread for themselves , until they marry ; and if

    they do not marry , for all their lives , and must lay up something for their old age .

    Among women of the laboring classes a good education is of comparatively little importance , for health and strength are of more

    service to a laborer ' s daughter than knowledge or intelligence ; but in the middle ranks , a woman cannot become a domestic servant : she

    would feel that to do so was a degradation ; and even if she did not , she would not possess the requisite physical powers _froro . want of

    early training . Her livelihood must be earned then , if earned at all , by

    intelligence ; and to all who gain their bread by the exercise of their mental powers a good education is the first necessary , and the

    privation of it a most serious injury . Private schools for girls are not only worse than boys' endowed

    schools , but are very inferior to boys' private ones . * ' The reason of this is , that there exist scarcely any places where girls of the middle

    classes can be trained as teachers . A boy who is intended to become a private teacher can get well taught at an endowed school

    * The Times early last December in animadverting on boys' private schools arithmetic stated that the But only this subj blame ects is well in fact taug hi ht h in them , were these " penmanship and the

    two essentials . " of a middle class , education . g The praise boy , who as can write are precisel and reckon y well and h quickl is rather y can earn his In bread irls' , schools even if nothing his knowled is well ge taug of ht history not even and

    geograpy vague . g , ground " penmanshi for comp p and laint arithmetic . Many g ; irl " s indeed leave school , if they writing were , a there scarcel would y legible be , han small d , .

    and unable to add up a bill of parcels with correctness . A girl who had been book several -keeper years was at a asked " seminary if she knew for young arithmetic ladies well " and and wished _rejriied to that become she did a

    having been , as far as Practice at school , but on examination , it appeared that , she could not multiply correctly . This is one instance out of many that

    could be quoted .

    24 Endowed Schools,

    24 ENDOWED SCHOOLS ,

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 1, 1862, page 24, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01031862/page/24/