Natural science in education / being the report of The Committee on the Position of Natural Science in the Educational System of Great Britain.

Date:
1918
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Credit: Natural science in education / being the report of The Committee on the Position of Natural Science in the Educational System of Great Britain. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    schools, the remainder being company or foundation schools or schools under the control of religious societies) have been inspected by, the Board of Education and declared “¢ efficient.’’ There is also a large number of private schools which have not been inspected, and in regard to which no official information is available.* There can, indeed, be little doubt that private schools play a much larger part in the educational provision for girls than for boys. In the last forty years the ideals of women’s education have been raised and the opportunities vastly increased, but there still remains some uncertainty in the public mind, if not in the minds of those best qualified to speak for education, as to the nature of the education to be provided for girls and the relative importance of the various subjects. Some parents still confine their ideas of education to the literary subjects together with music and art. Among the schools, whether grant-earning, ‘‘ efficient,”’ or uninspected, which provide secondary education for girls, there are a certain number of well-known schools which are more or less comparable to the large public schools for boys—schools from which a proportion of girls normally pass on to the universities and other places of higher education. But the custom by which boys are sent to Preparatory and Public Schools for a course of education extending from 8 or 9 to 18 or 19 is not followed to the same extent in the case of girls. A certain number of girls of secondary school age belonging to the wealthier classes of the community receive their education largely or wholly at home; others spend a short ‘period at a secondary day or boarding school—often a private schoo]l— * The same is true of a large number of schools under the control of religious communities.