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MIDDLE CLASS SCHOOLS FOR GIRLS. 169
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It Is Very Easy To Find Fault With Our N...
aimed do not at keep —to in teach view the the children very end to of hel education themselve , the s— very to point help them to be
selves to think rightly , and to carry their p right thoug , hts into right actionto make rational beings with good habits . You will perhaps
to say that ; out for the the learning most part so latel these y poured masters into and themselves mistresses . onl You y strive have ,
no pour doubtvisited National Schools , and have laughed at the answers the made any given midst instruction b b y y , a the of pup children chap il in may the ter art be to in of your taken the thi Bible nking questions as a as specimen ; she of , which showing gabbled . wan I stopped the " t and the utter His rep a want l child y coming latel in of y
a The was foretold irl stared by the me prop in the hets face . " " "Who said were " What the _proj father ) hets makes ? " I asked in his .
sh g . " And another irlafter naming , glibly all the countries in Europe op , confessed that g she , did not believe in their existence not ! believ
Inthe deed in half educ , a they very ation little are taug examination land ht . is But iving althoug will her prove h it that le is fault easy children - to finding find do fault and criti with - e
cism are useless Eng without the g exercise peop of comparison , . We must not take the ideal instead of the possible and the practicable as our test do
—and when we find fault with National and British Schools , we _comp those are who them visit with and criticise others ? these Not establishments often , I believe have . How ever many thought of
vide of examining for themselves ivhat ? the I education _sj _3 eak of is those _zvhich who the can mass provide of the peop for le them p ? ° o - -
selves I believe ; the it class to be who inferior can afford in every to pay respect more to th the an 2 education d . a week . given advocate of
in the National and British Schools . I do not think any the " colleg The voluntary iate little establi cheap system shments privat can deny e for day the young -schools fact . ladies , academies such and gentlemen , ions institutes , " to , have and the
hi proverbiall her classes y a low and would character we , believe unknown have as a still reg lower character are if down tr they ade g were take tradespeop known in , despair . le ,, They who to , , are what failing often is in justl conducted gaining , considered by a livelihood incompetent ( in consequence in broken a good
of the , competition of the schools assisted y by Government ) as a very bad I business speak generall . of the schools charging from 6 d . a week to 15 s ,
a nics , quarter who , are opened . too rich for y or the too children " genteel of " small to go shop to the keepers National and Schools and mecha- .
Such academies abound in the cheap quarters of all towns , are ing the lastic usuall ' education it character y by held pretentious in iven by small a in brass ignorance these private plate laces houses . or I a for have large , onl 6 d good . y board and manifesting reason Is , and . a week onl to b y their elieve is maintain inferior scho that - - g
difficult to the twopenny to investi education gate this matter given p in , but the . I p wish opular to schools draw special . It is atten very -
Middle Class Schools For Girls. 169
MIDDLE CLASS SCHOOLS FOR GIRLS . 169
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 1, 1860, page 169, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01111860/page/25/
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