On this page
-
Text (1)
-
THEIK USES AND SHORTCOMINGS. 25
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.
-
-
Transcript
-
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.
Additionally, when viewing full transcripts, extracted text may not be in the same order as the original document.
• ?- • It Is Recommended In The Heport O...
for a very small expense , but a girl who is intended to become a teacher can only learn at a private school and at a considerable
expense ; consequently the teachers are themselves untaught . Now the question isshall the new fund be applied to building more and
more schools for , boys who are already well supplied with model schools and training laces for mastersor shall it be applied to
build-. Ing and endowing a p few middle class , girls' schools in every county , where teachers for private schools may be instructed , and where a
. good system of teaching shall be maintained as an example to others ? To show how hardlthis exclusion from educational endowments
actslet us take the y not unusual case of a tradesman ' s family being left , hans . It is then strange to see the sons taken into a good
jBlue orp -coat school , tenderly nurtured , carefully trained , and finally put in the way of earning an honest livelihood , while the daughters
are left to rough it In the world as best they may , or are consigned to the contaminating atmos _23 here of a workhouse . Surely these
i poor ; he rule orphan is to girls hold have good the that first those claim who to public are the hel most p , in at want least of if
assistance are the fittest objects for receiving it ! There is another class who suffer severely from want of education .
It very impossible frequentl small , y for sometime happens such clergymen s that amounting tlie to incomes to provide only of £ fortunes 80 the or country £ 100 for their a year clergy daug : it are h is
exertions ters , who for must support therefore . These , unless they marry ladies , are depend particularl on their y well own
suited , by birth and position , young to become governesses in private families and in schools of a higher grade , but isolated as they are in
country villages , they have no means of obtaining good instruction , for their fathers cannot possibly afford to send them to even a
tolerable livelihood Thus th boarding ey in are some compelled school . or to other go out without into the havin world received to earn their any g
way , education to assist them ... If they become governessesthey receive low salaries and are
, unable "Workhouse to lay by visitors for their tell old us age that . large numbers of women " who
have seen better days , " are to be found in the wards ; probably not a few are of this classand it is certain that many clergymen ' s
daug on pensions hters are vary supported ing from , by £ the 10 Corporation to £ 20 a year of . the that Sons of the endowed Clergy
To remedy this hardship , I would _sug-gest a large boarding school ought to be erected in every county , to which the daughters and hans of the clergy who haveless than £ 200 a
orp , year should be sent free , and to which the less poor clergy and men of other professions might also send their daughters on paying a
sufficient sum to cover their expenses , and leave a little profit over ; say £ 25 a year . There ought also to be at least one school for
. girls in the chief town of every county , answering to the Blue-eoat
Theik Uses And Shortcomings. 25
THEIK USES AND SHORTCOMINGS . 25
-
-
Citation
-
English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 1, 1862, page 25, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01031862/page/25/
-