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REMUNERATIVE WORK FOR GENTLEWOMEN. 185
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practical knowledge of getting a child over this notable stumblingstonecan wonder that it is one over which niany never pass , seeing
what , the agents are , to whom the task of leading them is committed in the majority of our National Schools .
This occupation , which has been abandoned in despair by not a few tender mothersand whichif ever accomplished by a father ,
entitles him to a p , lace as a much , -enduring man , second only to _-Job—is entrusted to young girls utterly uninterested in their
patience pupils , at , ' they a period havin of g life , moreover when it , would to work be up unreasonable for very try to ing expect
exsole well aminations or regret even . the Trul the dames y princi , if learning of pal former aim to of days read a child and is ' to s have school be looked good life _^ we caus at mi as e g the ht to
welcome to the task dames-proper , ( as , they may be termed , ) who may be expected to bring to it matured patience and concentrated
attention . But though learning to read must certainly form a part ,
hy in nay many , our a prominent National cases the S part chool most of teachers valuable every . school part Throug of system hout the , instruction it their is not work all g , iven this nor
maxim should be kept steadily in view : " Remember the end , and thou shalt never do amiss . " And if this be doneanother will be
brought to light : " We learn to read , that we may , read to learn . " _looking on the attempt in this wayit will often seem to be labour
thrown away . The difficulties in the , way of children are really insuperable ; wholly untaught before they come to school , and often
physically disabled from learning in class by stuttering , bad sight , and other troubles abounding among them .
It frequently happens that a girl has been altogether neglected till ten or eleven years of age . She then becomes ashamed of her
I quite gnorance exceptional , and is in admitted which into it is a possible National to School make . such The a cases scholar are
read . In most the task is never accomplished , but it by no means follows that nothing has been gained . If the end of " learning to
read " be indeed " to read to learn , " this end may be in a great measure attained by means of oral instructionwhenby the regular
, , process , it certainly never would be during the short season of school life .
Even when the scholar can read quite fluently , those practically acquainted with the subject will soon see that , however useful as a
means of future progress , reading really does little in conveying information durinchildhood .
g Take religious instruction—will the most correct reading of the Bible by a child of eleven years old bring the great truths of
our most holy faith as clearly before the understanding , as close to the heart , as it is possible for the teacher to do by a sensible and
as well a g fact iven , lesson but will ? Children that rouse may their read grateful the history love of , the as Crucifixion it may be
Remunerative Work For Gentlewomen. 185
REMUNERATIVE WORK FOR GENTLEWOMEN . 185
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 1, 1862, page 185, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01111862/page/41/
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