HOME SCIENCE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10072, 20 August 1910, Page 4

HOME SCIENCE.

In view of the movement which has recently been made in favour of establishing a chair for Domestic Economy in one c£ our New Zealand Universities, it may bo interesting to I know that one of the subjects discussed at the Women's Conference held at the Japanese-British Exhibition was that in regard to ideals of home science and the proposal to raise the teaching of the arts and sciences that concern the home to a University standard. Mrs St. Loe Strachey, who opened the discussion, urged that not during a part but throughout the whole of a woman's education the teaching of the arts and sciences of the home should be kept steadily in view. She went on to point out : that the teaching of those arts and sciences could never obtain its rights J

and gain proper appreciation and a worthy status unless such teaching ! Avas raised to a University standard. People must be made to realise that these things were not merely affairs of the scullery, the laundry, and the store-room, but that the underlying principles, and especially the training of children, demand not only the highest culture, but the highest intellectual enhusiasm.