THE TURKISH SCHOOLGIRL
The education of tho' Turkish girl is nowadays a matter of groat importance and there are many foreign, schools scattered throughout Turkey. In Constantinople there are three French schools for girls, in Scutari one managed by an American woman, and at Pera a big English school,'<with many Turkish pupils. Theso girls follow' , the usual curriculum, and also attend classes for dancing, gymnastics, and physical culture. They do not go to school in the first instance ignorant of all save their own language, for now the children of those parents who follow the modern trend of thought are in their infancy provided with governesses who speak English, French, and German. Then, after several years at school, they return home, at the age of 13 or 14, to be "finished" by a governess, usually an accomplished Englishwoman. Indeed, the modern Turkish girl, with her knowledge of literature and her interest in- national affairs, is as unlike the veiled, and cloistered woman* of a few years back as it is possible to imagine.
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 469, 30 March 1909, Page 3
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173THE TURKISH SCHOOLGIRL Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 469, 30 March 1909, Page 3
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