MODERN GIRLS.

Hokitika Guardian, 5 January 1926, Page 4

MODERN GIRLS.

LONDON. Oct. 1-1. The Rev. the .Hon. E. Lyttelton—a former headmaster of 'Eton and now Dean of AVhitelands College, Chelsea—at the Barnett School in Hampstead Garden Suburb, N.W., yesterday said ho had noticed some remarkable differences in girl scholars as compared with boys. On tho whole the young women wrote three times as much n.s the boys. They c-ould not give a short answer to a question, and he had never, when reading through young women’s examination papers, found anything exquisitely funny as he did when reading through an average batch of boys’ papers. MUSIC AND HOTEL LIFE. Alluding to the value of reading music at sight, he said: “Think what a different thing outlives would be if there were at hotels, as we travelled about the country, people who would willingly unite in singing choruses and part-songs instead of, as "at present, talking the most intolerable bosh by the hour.” • At seven a bov was keen to acquire knowledge, but it was quite incredible how few boys of seventeen or eighteen who left our schools had a real thirst for knowledge for its own sake. “It is not nice to learn that the schools onlv produce swa-nkers.” said Mr ttolford, of Tottenham, at a Middlesex Education Committee meeting yesterday. “A teaching cf etiquette would avoid this,” lie added. In conversation with a head teacher on the matter he was told that a fight against swank in the secondary’schools was a vain one.