Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1892-12-22
\ W0MAN'S BEHALF.
SCHOOL TEACHING.
A Calling in Which Girls Find Pleasan
ard Profitable Employment.

our public schools"
The French educational commission
TO the centennial exhibition at Phila-
delphia, in its report on primary educa-
ton in the United States. attributed
the condition of affairs which the
writer in the Arena deplores. to the ef-
feet Of the war with the south. The
superiority Of the female element
of the teaching body over the male in
point of number says the report,
dates from the war OF secession, the
original cause being the voluntary en-
rOllment of all the young men who
We're teaching, as soldiers"
4 very little investigation suffices to
show that the cause assigned by the
French commission offers by no means
an adequate explanation of this feature
of the public school question. The
majority of teachers were young
women as far back as 1874 Between
1915 and 1850 the proportion of female
teachers in Massachusetts rose from
sixty to seventy per cent Of the whole
number. This increase was doubtless
owing in large measure to the in
huence of Horace Mann, who was at
that time secretary of the first state
board Of education in Massachusetts.
and who was most determined advo-
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