WOMAN'S WORLD
GISIS LEAVING SCHOOL.
■ Speaking recently at the Presbyterian Ladies' College iii Svdr.oy, Principal Maiden ? .lid:—"lf there is one - lesson Australian parents need to learn, it is tin; foil;, u: allowing their girls to leave school (on early. The consequence is tlisil ir.r.ny 01 tlienr arc. only half-educat-.otl. iir.c! they spend the five or six years between leaving school and their marriage iii a sort of happy-go-lucky idleness, which is most injurious to their character. Many of them become quite blase before they are twenty-one, having exhausted, as they think, every avenue iii' pleasure. If parents would only be ,wise and not listen to their daughters' coaxing' to leave school, the girls would bu far belter educated than they are at present; it c.v.iid he greatly for the advantage ul" ihcir intellectual and physical hcaiih, and the nai'.on would be ; greatiy i :■:■ gainer by hiving a, better educate! 1 , upper middle, class."
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 171, 19 January 1914, Page 6
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153WOMAN'S WORLD Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 171, 19 January 1914, Page 6
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