HIGHER EDUCATION OF WOMEN.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2108, 17 June 1907, Page 3

HIGHER EDUCATION OF WOMEN.

For the first time in the history of education in Australia we are about to receive, writes Professor David jf Sydney University, visit from one of the most distinguished autho--.-ities on education in the United states, Dr. David Starr Jordan, the -,veil-known principal of Stanford jriversity, California. ,He will give' a course of lectures on methods Ind ideals of American education. ,_>r. Jordan has been President of ohe great university, which has neary 2000 students, since the year 1891, olid it goes without saying that lie s well up-to-date in the. latest ideas _m education evolved by the most progressive of modern peoples. t |or. Jordan is a strong advocate .Jr the higher education of women, is will appear from the following: “The highest product of social evo--ution is the growth- of the civilisi pome. the home that only a wise, jultivated, and high-minded woman

jan make. Tt furnish such women is one of the worthiest functions of aigher education. “To be wise and at the same time womanly, is to wield a tremendous uliuence, which may be felt for good in the lives of generations to come, .t is' not forms of government by which men are made and unmade. It is the character and influence of cheir mothers and their wives. The higher education of women means more for the future than all conceivable legislative reforms. And its influence does not'stop with the Home. It means higher standards of manhood, greater thoroughness of training, and the coming of better men: Therefore let us educate our girls as well as oiir hoys. A generous education should be the birthright of every daughter of the Republic as well as of every son. “Even if the four K’s, ‘Kircho, Kinder, Kachan, ‘ and Kleider,’ are ;o occupy woman’s life, as the En peror AVillium would have ns bolieve, the college education is not. too serious a preparation for the profession of directing,,, them. A wise son is one who has* had a wise'mother, and to give alertness, intelligence, and wisdom in the , chief function of a college education.”