DIGNITY AND DOMESTIC SERVICE. [To ram EDITOR or rim .13roorsroa.n
Stn,—Your correspondent "F. B.," like many other people, seems to think that anything which it may be good for a human being to know may be taught in an elementary ' ,shoot I cannot help wondering whether he has ever spent en hone in one of these establishments. Does he really believe that girls under twelve, in classes of sixty or so, can be taught the elements of "cooking, sewing, cleaning, and washing, the laws of health, self-respect, and good moral principles "P And, farther, does he imagine that little girls compelled to " pass " in all this would have " a taste for it evoked" and a desire for morel' The end may be excellent ; but if this curriculum is imposed on the schools " from above " without consideration of the necessary conditions for its success
▪ small classes and the introduction of each subject at the age when the child is ready for it—the result will be waste of public money, disappointment, and blame thrown on those who fail to make bricks without straw.—I am, Sir, ika., CHILD STUDY.
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