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OPEN COUNCIL. 279
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LJ.—OPEN COUNCIL.
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* _ To the Editors of the English Woman'...
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Books Op The Ihontit. Miss Kavaistagh's ...
Books Received . " Our Feathered Families . " BH . GL Adams . ( J . Hogg & Sons . )
y " The Three Marys . " By the Rev . A . Moody Stuart . ( _Nisbet & Co . ) " The Child of the Kingdom . " ( _JSTisbet and Co . )
" The Story of Cervantes . " By Amelia B . Edwards . ( Routledge . )
Open Council. 279
OPEN COUNCIL . 279
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LJ . —OPEN COUNCIL . ( As these pages themselves are Intended responsible for general for the discussion opinions expressed , the Editors . ) do not hold
* _ To The Editors Of The English Woman'...
_* __ To the Editors of the English Woman ' s Journal . _liABIES ,
The article in your last number on the Local Examinations was one calculated to excite interest , and at the same time to satisfy , to a certain sequent extent , demands use of the for examinations further information as a test . It of tells education of the foundation among boy and sand sub it
does little more than touch on the probable benefit to be derived from , subjecting girls , not to a similar , but to the self-same test . The question of the standardwhether reasonable or notin an examination of irls ordinaril
, , gy _educated Report , quote , is d answered by the writer most of conclusivel the article y b . y The a passage perhap from s more the important Oxford question of the possibility of carrying on mixed examinations to any extent
In without the case undesirable of the Society consequences of Arts . has The , I believe question , been remainin solved g to experimentall be answered y is thisIs the advantage to be gained bthrowing open these local
examinations , to girls likely to be counterbalanced y by any possible disadvantages , foreseen or unforeseen ? and I confess that to answer , or attempt to answer , this question otherwise than by experiment , appears to me ridiculous . It
having been once ascertained ( and this , of course , must be one of the first steps ) that a respectable number of ladies and gentlemen engaged in the tuition at all events of girls hope wish and that expect the trial more should good be than made harm , and to thus result prove from that itI they con- ,
oeive that nothing , much more decisive can reasonably be looked for , , in the thing way , of has opinion been for absolutel or against y proved , until to , b work y patient beneficiall and length y or y prejudiciall experiment y . , the It
may be said that by such experiment you will expose the pupils of all schools which avail themselves of the opportunity offered , to an indefinite amount of harmshould the examinations be at last shown to exercise a prejudicial
, influence upon but . experiments But , ' I ask , what which are must all systems be proved of , education not by the when orizing first on entered their
possible results should they be tried , but by watching their actual results when they have been tried ? And again , is it not far better that all these systems offspring , which of thoug are ht almost and exp as erience numerous but as as often teachers perhaps , and of are whim sometimes ignorance the
and idlenessshould be brought to , some such test as , these examinations , than that they , should continue to work , as now , within too narrow a compass , , if goodbut how much too widelyif bad ? It does not appear to be as yet
a settled , question , what the influence , of the Local Examinations has been or is likely to be on boys : some teachers report very favourably of their working ;
I others know again , an able find and them conscien unsatisfactory tious man or , and even for prejudicial many years . One now at at the head rate ,
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1862, page 279, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121862/page/63/
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