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FEMALE EDUCATION IN THE MIDDLE CLASSES. ...
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those upon whom tlie education of girls devolves , whether as mothers or instructorsto the sacred and important nature of their duties .
There are facts , connected with the system , or rather non-system , of Female Educationas now understoodwith which it behoves every
parent to make him , or herself acquainted , . Not only are its results to be seen in the aimless and blighted existences which meet us on
all hands , but the prison , the hospital , and the madhouse , —each has himsele its tale to prevent to tell . or In control a work entitled Insinity " " Man we find ' s potte the following r oveh
, evidence , which too many of us can , alas , from personal knowledge , corroborate . Having spoken of the desultory education bestowed
upon boys , and its inadequacy to prepare them for the battle of life , the writer proceeds to say : " But if this be the case as regards the
male sex , how much more fearfully is it . so with the female ? Here the drawing-room but perpetuates the mischief of the nursery ; and
woman , so largely endowed by nature , is degraded by social prejudice , and the frivolous education eonsequentupon it , till she is left at the
mercy of events , the creature of impulse _^ and instinct . Yet physiologists have demonstrated that the organs of thought are
proportionately larger in woman than in man ; * and many a bright example has shewn how well she can be employed . One plain statistical fact
shews that no terms that I can use in the reprobation of this cruel system can be too strong . The registers of Lunatic _Asylums
show the number of female patients to exceed that of male by nearly one- third , f We have the assurance of professional men well
exfor 1836 Professor observe Tiedeman s that , " in Al an thoug elabora h Aris te totle paper has published remarked in the that Phil the . Trans female _^^ .
smaller brain is , , absolu compared tely with smaller , the than body the ; for male the , female it is nevertheless body is in general not relativel lighter y The female brain is for the most
than than the that male of the , compared male . with the size of the body . ob " that part even The larger size
in of Dr females their . Fletcher brain than , , in in compared males his Hud H i men ence th ts t w heir of e mi Ph sp ys h inal t iology be marro led , to w s conclude erves , is some t w ha , t " t greater realit ; g y
it is not their faculty of thinking , but their materials for t t hought , which t
brain are less relati than vel in t males o the . " size Whether of the , theref or ore rela , we tivel consider to the he size size of of the he nerveswhich y to make up the spinal y , marrowwe find y the female brain
indeed has ver , to y be commonl _exiDected go y a that trifli the ng * inferior advantage muscular over that , of should the male have . It a com was - power
in pensa con tion trivance ; as we is usuall find y that given in as animals a defence deficient . in strength , superior skill ' ils to the
f Webster ' s Observations on the Admission of Medical Pup this Wards fact of as _Bethlem rds Hosp the ital ho . sit T he and obser as vat lums ions made for luna by tics M . Esquirol Franceare on y
gi worth good ven i , n t recording o a , great y rega oung degree here ladies , , since with , " they says regard p he are to , " the England the result preference . of " long The for vices experience acquirements of the , education and purel , hold y
i cious ornamen maginary activity tal excellence , the , and reading awakens that of can romances premature never , be which de realised sires gives , t ; the to ther the frequenting w intellect ith ideas of a preco of pla a y n - t tiosufficient
to and render society Insanity , the abuse most of frequent music and among wan our of women occupa . " n , are causes 2 a
Female Education In The Middle Classes. ...
FEMALE EDUCATION IN THE MIDDLE CLASSES . 219
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1858, page 219, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061858/page/3/
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