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186 REMUNERATIVE WORK FOR GENTLE WOMEN.
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* There Are Few More Satisfactory Occurr...
roused hy being told the truth , to be received with . that fact : c Jesus Christ died on that cross to gain eternal happiness for
you ' ?" The same is true of secular matters . If the teacher has herself 61
read to learn , " her scholars may glean an ample supply from her abundant stores . While they would have spent years in
learning to read the most elementary book which treats of things all-important to the daily comfort of lifethey need not spend
, as many "weeks in gaining useful information from judicious oral lessons . These are valuable results for the most incorrigible
enemy of AB C . Now for this kind of workgentlewomen are by birthright
, in possession of many advantages over the class of teachers at present employed . Having encountered all the difficulties of
acquiring knowledge in the beginning of their career , living with parents and guardians whoso far from assisting them in
, their tasks , or opening their minds to understand them , can but wonder at their superior attainmentsthe success of Pupil
, Teachers generally , when called to the management of schools , has been very creditable to them , and prevents regret that the
scheme of Government assistance must ( as things are apparently likely to stand ) place most of the town schools in their hands .
But admitting this cannot deprive the ladies whose cause is before us of their claims to superior powers .
Looking back to the dawn of intelligence , it Avill be found that , in ordinary circumstancesthe children of the gentry are
, three years in advance of their poorer neighbours . Setting aside the power of reading , which under a nursery
governess is generally acquired thus much earlier , so many things are learned by them intuitively as to make it difficult to believe
gentle and simple to be of the same age . And this inequality existsthrough life .
It will readily be acknowledged , that t _| ie conversation of any commonly intelligent daughter of ease and independence , will
be more agreeable than that of the most well-informed schoolmistress whose youth has been passed in reading for the certificate
of merit which she holds , and which certainly never could have been given to the lady in question . The tone of voice , some
_acquaintance with general literature , the easy expression of thought which comes from never having known what it was
to speak ungrammatically , personal anecdotes , so rare in the monotony of school-lifeabove all the tact to know when enough
, has been said , these are air on the side of the lady . H . M . Inspectors have again and again borne testimony to the value
of such voluntary teachers , for , little as at first sight one might expect itall these advantages bear with their fullest force on
, children . The lessons of a lady are free from that stiffness which ,
with the trained teacher , too often betrays that it has been got up <
186 Remunerative Work For Gentle Women.
186 REMUNERATIVE WORK FOR _GENTLE WOMEN .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 1, 1862, page 186, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01111862/page/42/
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