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174 MIDDLE CLASS SCHOOLS FOR GIKLS.
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and the names of those who pass to the satisfaction of the , examiin ners a , yet ar not ate so class as . to M deserve arks of honors distinction , will w "be ill placed be attache alphabeticall d to the y sep
name of any candidate who may specially distinguish himself in student any particular will . be parts adde of d the his examination lace of residence . After the the school name of ( if every any ) p
, from which he comes to attend the examination , and the name of his schoolmaster "
. Such is the system pursued at Cambridge , the extension of which to female teachers would prove a great guarantee to the
parents 1859-60 of and pup do ils . not I think have looked that they over need the in Examination any way be Papers change for d
if women , were included among the students . There need be no terrible publicity to shock and frighten the female candidate , for
we read that " an examination will be held in any place where it nation can be " ascertained that there will be thirty - candidates ¦ ¦ for
exami-. I will now proceed to make a few remarks on the sort of education which would be really valuable to the middle class , and at the
same time attractive to them . In the first place , it is very desirable which to adop is t habituall the method _pursiied of teaching in N in ational classes Schools by means . The of obj app ect aratus -lessons and ,
the museum are essential y to good teaching . To acquire a string of names by heart , with no ideas or with wrong ideas attached to those
namesdoes not increase a child ' s real knowledge . To do this you must In irls p , lace ' schools the actual this obj is e rarel ct before y thoug the ht child of ' s ; eyes I remember whenever a possible London .
word girl g in hay a " for boarding twelve -school or thirteen for young years , ladies in prose " who , poetry had , repeated and conver the
sationand who had a vague idea that hay was composed of leaves of trees , mixed with bits of stick ; yet this was a very accomplished
in girl our who minds could the play well on the of piano a false . It idea is worth of hay whil , that e to we fo may llow consequences
feel the utility of real knowledge . How very much she lost by her sage ignorance in the , misunderstanding Bible about grass the ; knowing beauty and nothing meaning of mowing of every , pas and - incorrectness
g i of absolute gnorant irls thoug , who ht contact of have ' about the , meaning with generall natural the y of earth , obj fewer the ects and word opportunities is the very scy water the common ! . than V Real agu in boys e knowled the possess minds ge de of of
faculties velops not while only the on observation the other , hand but the nothing imagination so much and takes the poetical away
from the ; solidity , and intensity of a , character as the habit of using words without knowing the things they signify . It breeds
intellectual and moral unfaithfulness . Schoolmistresses so little understand this very evident law in education , that they expect their
have girls never to feel seen an , inter and to l earn poetry hard full tasks of in similes natural about scienc thing e wi s thout they
174 Middle Class Schools For Gikls.
174 MIDDLE CLASS SCHOOLS FOR GIKLS .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 1, 1860, page 174, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01111860/page/30/
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