EDUCATION OF WOMEN

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3041, 30 March 1917, Page 3

EDUCATION OF WOMEN

Lecturing in Adelaide last week on "The Eduoation of Woinfln,".tb*''Director of Tutorial Classes in South Australia (Mr. H. Heatoh) said that it -was now gfenerally admitted' that it was folly to waste and neglect intellect and 'personality, simply- because those quail-' ties dwelt in womanhood. Women must be fitted'by _education to take their' place as efficient members of society. The chief question waß what sort of education was required. In order to answer that question -it -was- necessary to analyse the, position of women today. . The great bulk of the fair ses, from the economic point of view, lived lives almost entirely devoted to domestic duties; That tended to make them become monotonous, and to degenerate into drudgery, and some factor was' needed to counteract that condition. From the political point of view, woman was rapidly asserting her claim to an equal status with man, but in order that her part should be effective some definite scheme of adult education for womanhood must bo -worked out. That was worki which the Workers' Educational Association attempted .to do by the provision of classes for such as were of special interest and value to women, whether in their personal capacities or in the discbarge of their duties as citizens.