The position of woman: actual and ideal / with preface by Sir Oliver Lodge.

Date:
1911
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Credit: The position of woman: actual and ideal / with preface by Sir Oliver Lodge. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    bably enter a profession, is chafed to find herself handicapped by warped school training, and the intelligent parent is quick to see that his daughter is not fitted thereby for the battle of life, which she as often as not is destined to enter. Hence the many large and progressive girls’ schools or mixed schools, which may be called professional in aim. They are, in many cases, wonderfully organ- ized machines. Their object is to send their best pupils to the Universities, as the door through which to reach many professions. These schools do not entirely neglect domesticity, for it is also one of the professions. A bow is accordingly made to cooking, as good practical training. And if one is to judge by results, the puddings turned out by girls educated in the highly organized professional schools are quite as good as those prepared by the pupils who have had what is called a good “old sound domestic education.” This is probably true, because strong intellectual effort makes the mind more active in all directions, domestic or otherwise. By strong intellectual effort is meant neither over- work nor overstrain, but something more than the babyish intellectual tasks that certain scaremongers on the physical side would allot to girls because of danger to health. It seems more probable that there cannot be true health of body unless the mind is putting out its powers to a considerable and varied extent in good hard, and often abstract, thinking, and in applying reason to prac- tice. And in so far as the school with profes- K