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322 ON THE EDUCATION OF PAUPER GIRLS.
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The Education Of The Female Sex Is One O...
pointed Important early nurture to duties on the should , at one the hand be present dul as y the prepared day onl , y when means and female educated of relieving emigration for society those is
of an enormous , and unprofitable , surplus of female labor , - and on the otherwe are warned that untrained and helpless women are as
little wanting , at the Antipodes as here , it is especially evident that womenin order to do their true life ' s work in any station , in
art of , the lobemust be educated . any But p for this simp g le , proposition to be practically adopted by the
country , we must wait at least for another generation to pass , and culties only hope and that trials all consequent the mistakes on of them this all present the lessons one , —all which the have
diffibeen given by the experienced , and forgotten , as soon as received by the thoughtless—that all these may have had some small due effect ;
, bered we can onl But y hop with e that _resjDect when to we the are g gone irls who our are words the may subject be remem of this
-. paper convinced , we that need our not views wait for are them sound or their and parents ht to or be friends carried to out be . oug
They , the next generation , the mothers to of be the trained one that the follows most ,
are in our hands , the hands of society , as enormous enlightened evils educationists round us which of the we day cannot may remed deem best we behold . We mul see - y
titudes of young girls springing up in our midst , to misery and ruinand we cannot stretch out a helping hand to save them , for
they , have low , ignorant parents , who know nothing and care little about their dhters' true education . Someperchancehave sunk
so lowand been aug so ill-trainedthat the law , interferes , and takes them out , of the hands of their , parents ; and we stand on this bad
foundation to raise a good superstructure , in a Reformatory . But the workhouse girls are our own charge ; we have the sole
responsibility of them ; the Government is not sparing in its allowance to their teachers , devoting some £ 30 , 000 annually that workhouse
children may be well trained . The parents cannot interfere . There opportunit is no In criminal our own taint hands to of be rearing washed 1 up out another . "We generation have every of
• wives and y mothers , far better than the present , or of preparing a better race of female emigrants to our coloniesand _tve are _jstot
, tors doing it or . visitors Whether of we workhouses ask commissioners , or governors on education of gaols , , or we inspec shall
have , the same mournful answer from all . However they may differ in other matters , they will agree in this , —that bad as is the
education and training usually given to boys in ordinary workfor house the schools duties , of the life girls and receive the exceptions one even to less this calculated general to experience nt them
will only be where there ; has been some special influence exerted to counteract the evils of the _& 3 stein . We require thus to study
closely what is the cause of the evil , and to consider how it may be
removed .
322 On The Education Of Pauper Girls.
322 ON THE EDUCATION OF PAUPER GIRLS .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1862, page 322, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071862/page/34/
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