EDUCATION OF GIRLS
/ 'Speaking at, Barnslby'recentlyi(6ays an .English. journaOV/'-Erofessor ,- M.'-.Sadler said/ that the -leaders {of, girls' education in'/England-; were; now,', coming under -. a {new ideal;; -Within'.itho'.memory of.:oldbr people; that education' underwent ■ a g^eat change.; Previously;.its ideal "had : bebn pne_.of ; conventional; dombsticilj',/ accompanied .by , intellectual Amateurishness. - /
i;.'l'he ;Victorian' renaissance., camo with ideals' of Vusiness-like, organisation: aiid in-. tellcctual ■'. with' 'emphasis on the importance of/beating {men :on;their -oto ;ground.! .{ Ho{was; far;'from' saying ,tho/moveihent:,had' been' unfruitful;^it, had - secured the. effective - organisation ; of ;English"7girls'./ sch6ols.'; /Now;; however,: .'.there was',-an impulse 'towards /a more .womanly: education, more, artistic, ;in7its temper ;.and .its .'choice; of /studies, .easier in. point'.of intellcctual strain,. especially ■during / adolescence,- ' less {.'examinationridden, -i less;, academically • competitive, Imore attentive to. jprace .of : bearing and to the; trainingof .the .body,, more' regardful. ;to'{ skilfulness . of .-h'and, - especially in tho home arts, -but, resting {on .a 'firin.'under-" ; structure: of •/ intelkctual /discipline,' and giving; scientific preparation for mothcrihood:and. for.the duties of home {life.
, ''For seven years-a patient "has l.eeivkepi: alivemLaricasterAsylum/by being forcibly fed'in the- manlier resorted ;to by the Birmingham-prison authorities iu dealing .with the Suffragists., :':/ .'.'/r /V
//Miss'.Ethel Wharton,- of. 'Wales,. IB .said to be the first woman to receive a . Carnegie |medal :.for. heroism.-Miss Wharton, a nurse, rescued - a'.baby'from a burning hotel, /.and in so.-.. juries ' that havo .mado-her a .cripple for life. ..
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 713, 12 January 1910, Page 3
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219EDUCATION OF GIRLS Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 713, 12 January 1910, Page 3
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