OUR EDUCATION SYSTEM.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 2493, 3 July 1888, Page 2

OUR EDUCATION SYSTEM.

"A Woman and a Mother," writing from Whanganui to the Taranaki Herald on mixed schools, says:—" The present system is bringing (if it has not already brought) a curse upon the country. The indiscriminate mixing together of boys and girls of all classes must be bad. The State compels people to send their children to school, and no doubt the State has done a certain amount of good, but it has also done an immense deal of harm by compelling respectable people to send their innocent children to be contaminated by children of the very lowest and most vicious class, for there is no distinction made between good and bad children, they are all herded together indiscriminately, good and bad, boys and girls, and without any religious or moral teaching. It is known and silently grieved over by a great many people, that immorality is increasing amongst children, and it can't be otherwise under the present system. In talking to a lady friend some time ago, she said, ' I can't help noticing that the little girls whom I used to know as nice, quiet, modest children, are now become pert and forward and with no sense of modesty." I also have noticed the same thing. Now, if you take away modesty and delicacy of feeling from women aud girls, what is to become of society ? It is they who hold society together. If the present system of education goes on wo shall sink down to the level of savages morally ; wo may have a knowledge of all the 'ologies, but if we aro morally corrupt, what better shall we be than savages?"