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382 AN" INTERESTING BLUE BOOK.
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to assimilate knowledge , is alone education . These powers may be mentary called forth teaching most * readil —intelli y , gent and can reading be tested 1 and spelling best , by and thoroug numbering h , ele- ;
Nothing * whatever ought to be attempted till a child can read , and read so as to understand and enjoy the exercise . Anything which there "
is time for may be added after this . The child may never get beyond thisbut without it all else is simply useless ; with it , easily
, attainable . But what we want , say the class of objectors we have referred to ,
( and here the true friends of education must part company with them , ) is good domestic servants . The answer to this is simply
, that the National Schools were not intended to supply that want . Has it never occurred to those who repeat this cry , that good
mistresses make good servants ? In the intelligent school-girl the good ' mistress has the raw material of a good servant put into her
hands . There is a dearth of g'ood servants , for everybody expects to find them and nobody will take the trouble to make them , but
in the lack of mistresses who really undertake this duty , so beneficial to themselves and to society , it seems wonderful that there are
so many . Why should the employers of domestic service be a privileged classfor whose behoof National schoolmistresses are to
, labor and the public to pay ? The young servant ought to be trained in the family of the employer . If most of our _yoimg
servants are trained in the inferior families , ( we write inferior only to _exjDress fewer domestic resources , ) the superior have no- right to
complain ; let them train domestics for themselves , under the example of their experienced servants and to the command of their superior
resources . The wife of the working-man must learn from her mother to command and economize ih . e much smaller and more
simple resources of a workman's home ; if she cannot and does not learn thereintelligence duly cultivated will lead her to _experiment
, for herself , and guide her to sufficient success . Womanly instincts of order and grace are not so rare but that they will flourish if only
the soil and the seed be there . They do not need the forcing of the industrial school . The soil must be an open , intelligent mind ;
the seed the simple idea of duty making fast , by the power of conscience and the sanction of religionthe obligation to carry out in
, practice what has been clearly comprehended as the right rule of life . *
schools * . I am go unwilling forth without to let thi expressing s expression my parti of op al inion dissen in t , regard though to well industri aware al
th tionalists at the writer of the cla supp y . If orted mothers by ma and ny mistresses of the most did active their and duty intelli , it would gent doubt educa - - less intellectual be a saving training of time more and especia exp ll ense as it to is make exceeding the school ldifficult a place in practic of merel e to y
combine any other object , with that one . But unfortunatel y y no such division ing of labor in E ng c lan arried d , and out the ; the real household question arts is whether are generall it is y rational said to to be expend
declinsuch an immense fund of money , energy , and benevolence in promoting *
382 An" Interesting Blue Book.
382 AN" INTERESTING BLUE BOOK .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1861, page 382, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081861/page/22/
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