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118 WHY BOYS ARE CLEVERER THAN GIRLS.
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keep accurate accounts , he can also if necessary write a letter for s his omething master in of Ms grammar clerkly . hand So , the and word tradesman it well makes too , for philosop he knows hical
reflections on the natural inferiority of the female intellect , and engages the boy ; at the end of the year his wages are raisedand in
a few years the young man will he earning eighteen or , twenty shillings a week . His sister meanwhile has become a sempstress ,
and goes out sewing for eight pence a day . This is no exaggerated account of the teaching in an ordinary
national school , and its consequences . Let us now turn to a more pleasing subject , and see how excellent a preparation for future life
can be given to girls at school . The institution we allude to is situated near Gainsborough in Lincolnshire . Besides being
well instructed in reading ,, writing , sewing , and arithmetic , the girls are taught to wash their clothes , to cook the provisions they
bring for dinner , and to make and bake bread . The lady who supports the school , often allows the elder girls to assist in her
kitchen or house , so as to become fitted to take places in gentlemen ' s families , and they generally turn out excellent servants . If schools
of this description could be universally established , it would be a blessing to the country , but as that cannot be done at oncewe must
make what use we can of the means at hand , to improve the , education of female children . The wealthy should remember that an
extra five or ten pounds per annum , often makes the difference between an efficient or ah inefficient schoolmistress ; a tolerable
teacher can be procured for thirty pounds a year and her lodging , and a really good one for forty . A prize too , given for arithmetic ,
will encourage the girls to exert themselves to learn it . Persons of education who have leisure cannot employ it more
where usefully but than too often in teaching they learn the g onl irls y reading arithmetic and in writing parish and schools are ,
then sent out into the world to compete for their livelihood , with boys who have been well instructed in arithmetic and book-keeping .
If only one sex is to be educated , that sex should surely be the female , for if a man be ignorant he can still earn his bread as a
laborer , or soldier , or at the worst go to the backwoods , and hew his road to fortune with the axe ; but the ill-educated woman has
no resource but her needle , and that often fails to procure the
merest necessaries of life .
118 Why Boys Are Cleverer Than Girls.
118 WHY BOYS ARE CLEVERER THAN GIRLS .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Oct. 1, 1858, page 118, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01101858/page/46/
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