The Professions Educational By The Hon. Mrs. Arthur Lyttleton (From "Women and Their Work.") (See page 51) The habits of application, of concentration and of regularity which professional training requires will never be out of place in any kind of life, and women will be the more capable of doing, not only their own particular kind of work, but all work, better for the experience they have passed through. It is simply a continuation of their education, which now very unreasonably ends at eighteen. Woman's Struggle for Educational Rights By Mrs. H. M. Swanwick (English contemporary. Author of "The Future of the Woman's Movement," from which the following is taken.) ... All the world knows of the foundation of the great modern career of sick-nursing; of the more bitter and prolonged struggle of women to study medicine and surgery and qualify as practitioners therein. All these changes had, to a greater or less degree, to be fought for by those who desired them. . . . People resisted them with more or less tenacity, and used against the reformers the sort of arguments they are still using against further emancipation. There are, of course, some Orientalists, even in England, who think in their hearts that it was a great mistake to teach women to read. But most people now accept the principle that women should have the best education available, and only differ as to what that education should be. Equal Advantages of Education By Elizabeth Cady Stanton (Famous leader, with Susan B. Anthony, of the early woman suffrage movement. From a letter quoted in "Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony.") Should not all women, living in states where they have the right to hold property, refuse to pay taxes so long as they are unrepresented in the governments? .. .... Man has pre-empted the most profitable branches of industry, and we demand a place at his side; to this end we need the same advantages of education, and we therefore claim that the best colleges of the country be opened to us. . . . In her present ignorance, woman's religion, instead of making her noble and free, by the wrong application of great principles of right and justice, has made her bondage but more certain and lasting; her degradation more helpless and complete. Intellect Wins By Mrs. Alec Tweedie A pretty woman has the first innings, but an intelligent woman gets the most runs. woman catches out her opponents. A clever Education and Votes for Women By Elizabeth Cooper (Author of "My Lady of the Chinese Court Yard," "Women of Egypt,' "Market for Souls,' "The Harem and the Purdah,'' "Living Up to Billy," etc. From "Woman and Education" in "Educational Foundations."') That this enlargement of the educational horizon of women in Britain means necessarily "Votes for Women" may or may not be inferred. Certain it is that the advancing social and economic arrangements of modern society will add continually to the allotment to women of tasks and responsibilities unknown to them in the past. Women will accept such responsibilities in accordance with their ability and training in competition with men, and their trained intelligence will become year by year a more widely recognized fact in the minds of University authorities and in the adjustment and enlargement of curriculum and University life. Democratization of Learning (American contemporary. Teacher, writer on educational problems. From "Elimination of Waste in Elementary Education,'' in Education' a monthly magazine.) Two processes of "democratization" are conceivable in the educational system of a nation; one consists in lowering educational standards and aims to the level that makes them readily acceptable and accessible to the masses; the other consists in gradually raising the intellectual level of the masses to the level of high and efficient educational standards. The admission of too early specialized "vocational training" in a public school system has a dangerous leaning towards the first process of democratization, which is apt ultimately to defeat its own end. That the second is of necessity a far lower and more laborious one, does not invalidate its superiority. Educating the Daughter By Josephine Pitcairn Knowles (From "The Upholstered Cage.'') The day has now arrived when nature and fairness are proclaiming that the same expenditure of time and money must be bestowed on the girl as on the boy, and she should be regarded as an investment in the same way as the boy now is. It has always been realized that unless he is given a good education and then started properly in life, that is, given a "shove off," as it were, he won't do much, and so all efforts in a family of small means are concentrated toward helping launch the boy in life. The idea, of course, being that he must support himself, and very likely keep a wife and children, therefore it is more important for him to get on well than for the girl, who has her parents to keep her until she marries. There would be nothing against this theory if it were sound; but where the theory breaks down is that girls and women now do have to earn their own living, and this necessity is on the increase, and the point is that the women have often to do it on inadequate material; the girl earns her living without the previous training, without the school or college training, without any capital having been spent on her as a premium, without all the advantages the boy started with. The World of Scholarship a Man's World By M. Carey Thomas (See page 10) Fifty years ago the world of scholarship was a man's world in which women had no share. Now although only one woman in one thousand goes to college, even in the United States, where there are more college women than in any other country, the position of every individual woman in every part of the civilized world has been changed because this onetenth of one percent. has proved beyond possibility of question that in intellect there is no sex. Unwillingly at first but inevitably and irresistably men have admitted women into intellectual comradeship. The opinions of educated women can no longer be ignored by educated men. Social Education Important (Helen Keller, having been born blind, deaf and dumb, is not only remarkable in that she has mastered many things, including articulate speech, but also that out of her reading and observations of life, she is able to construct a philosophy obviously superior to that of the average human being with normal faculties. The following is from "The Modern Woman" in "The Metropolitan Magazine,'' October, 1912.) Social ignorance is at the bottom of our miseries, and if the function of education is to correct ignorance, social education is at this hour the most important kind of education. The educated woman, then, is she who knows the social basis of her life, and of the lives of those whom she would help, her children, her employers, her employees, the beggar at her door, and her congressman at Washington.. It is for the American woman to know why millions are shut out from the full benefits of such education, art, and science as the race has thus far |