MARKET VALUE OF EDUCATION.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4628, 3 November 1883, Page 1

MARKET VALUE OF EDUCATION.

A young lady (says the Sheffield Telegraph) was recently advertised for, at four shillings a week, to give tuition to four children in a genteel neighborhood-»-EDg : lish, French, Latin, music, and other specified subjects being required. Quite a shoal of answers, many of them " kinder sarcastical," have been scut, including one in which the handwriting belies the spelling :—■" maddam,—l've bin at Bord School and am wanting sitvation as gurernis has mother alias wants me at mangle. I'dd rather after a good edication teech childer but mother sez mangling pays best. So it duz but isn't, ginteel loike. Four childer will be a deal of bother but let I have a Cain apdTil quieten urn. Four shilling a week isn't much to keep one self on but mother sezi can make out with mangle at noits and praps you can make up with some oast off close occasionally. I'm yer man. Address A. S. S. Bord school He of Sky.—A lady as lives nere here gives me 5 shillings a week for cleaning boots and knives & cetera when she's busy, but it dirts one's anda and Bord School has taught me better." The correspondent who forwarded the above cutting writes:—" The advertised demand tends to show the discounted state of the 'educationimparting' market in the old country, whilst in the reply I fancy I see a deep vein of satire, as showing what hurried education-1— cramming—French polish—is likely to produce in a rising generation. The reply might be studied with advantage by not a few Australian parents who appear to; desire above all things for their children clean hands, a straight back, and gentility.