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228 LA SCEUB ROSALIE.
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The opinions entertained by La Sceur Rosalie were of course those inevitable to a Catliolic ; she cared less for intellectual advance
than for the moral training of the children in her schools , and she tried to apportion the kind and amount of instruction given to the
requirements of the future career of her pupils . Her plan of education aimed at producing certain definite results , and in so far
It differed very considerably from the ideal of education now existing among of the mind us in , Eng irrespective land , vMch of their aims probable at drawing or out possible the whole direct powers
application . We willhoweverremind our readers how great a recoil _, has cation of of lat the e prevailed irls , of , even the , working in England classes , towards . The the advocates industrial of e edu du - -
limit cation their are instruction beg g inning to to what feel may that be common called a sense professional requires end them , and to
as working women must do house-work , as the health , comfort , and morality of the laborer ' s and mechanic ' s home must chiefly depend
on the woman who is at the head of it , it is folly to call that efficient education , which sends a female child out into the w _^ orld untrained
for her peculiar and inevitable duties . Hence the constant current of press schools articles ; hence the about publication industrial of schools such tracts , cooking as those schools issued , by sewing the
Ladies' Sanitary Association , from " How to Manage a Baby , " upwards La Sceur . Hosalie therefore , being , as appears on . every page of her
memoir , eminently unspeculative and pre-eminently practical , and living rance , was moreover onlmatched , day by by day its amidst _urg-ent a practical population needs whose set gross herself igno to
train up as many y girls as possible in the way they should , go , and she discouragedor threw aside as uselesswhatever did not
recommend itself on the , _groimd of practical utility , . So we must not be surprised that she disapproved of drawing , history , and
belleslettres , as subjects of study in primary schools . In particular , she objected to the time given to singing in girls' schools . This was the
view she took , which we leave to be disputed , as it probably will be by suitable the maj for orit boys y of destined our readers to roug . h _" contact Music , wi " she th tlieir said , fellow " the is external - perhaps men , to
work carried on amidst numbers , amidst the tumults of and world to ; substitute it may serve honest to s and often peaceful the roug amusement h manners for of the the noisy workman orgies ,
of the tavern . But for young girls it is dangerous ; it invites their attendance in mixed laces of amusement ; it calls them away from
the modest fulfilment p of household duties to expose them to public curiosity and theatrical applause . Why should we seek to awake
in our young girls of the working classes needs and tastes winch are in contradiction to tlie conditions imposed on them by their
birth , their purse , and their surroundings ; drawing * and music , and all similar surplus of instruction , only serves to disgust them with
their needle , and to propagate that desire to . rise ia life ( ces idees de
228 La Sceub Rosalie.
228 LA SCEUB ROSALIE .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1859, page 228, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121859/page/12/
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