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28 ENDOWED SCHOOLS.
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-will succeed in their object unless they include girls in their efforts .
The Rev . J . S . Howson , of Liverpool , says on this subject : " Why do I single out girls of the middle classes as been subjects for overlooke special d
than consideration the boys , ? partl Partl y y because because I believe they have the condition more of their education to be worse than that of the boys , partly because the
agencies now set in motion for raising the standard and improving the inoperative quality of on the the education female half of of the them classes in question But are there almost is
another reason why this subject should be closely and separately considered . The girls are more important than the boys . The
This power power of woman is all the is reall greater y the because greatest it is power not openl in y the and It country visibl is not y .
exercised merelthat ; it the is the mothers power of not each of generation force but are of influence the most . influential instructors y of the next—not merelthat while we men are occupied
with a thousand employments , that y take us away froni our homes and childrenthe influence of woinan is exercised continually and _^
at that period of life when impressions are most easily received . This is not all . The influence is continuous over the men
themselves . It is exercised , whether felt or not , at each part of the whole social machine .
"If any question in the whole world is suitable for the consideration of an Association for Social Science , it is the inquiry into
the kind of education which our women receive in their girlhood . " ** from Now an , if equal this share be in of any educational degree true endowment , is it wise s ? to Would exclude it women not be
a mistake as well as an injustice to devote the new fund to the exclusive use of men who already enjoy more than two-thirds of
the present endowments ? That to do so would be contrary to the wishes of the founders of the old charities , and cruel towards those
numerous single women , who , though debarred from the means of good callings attention education requiring of all , who are intell yet have i compelled _gence at heart , has to the alread try interests to y earn been of their hum shown anity bread . The and in
social improvement should be directed towards the disposal of this means £ 101 , 000 of bestowing a year , which such if great rightly and and lasting justly benefits expended on , may the be whole the
posed communit and by affording y ons , by the raising to means numb the ers of moral earning of necessitous tone of an a hone large and st but industriousl livelihood corrupt y class from dis , -
• which pers they are at present debarred by the want of the necessary , education . O t J * r .
* Transactions of the Social Science Association , 1859 . Page 309 .
28 Endowed Schools.
28 ENDOWED SCHOOLS .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 1, 1862, page 28, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01031862/page/28/
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