The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1911-01-20
A. n. LOGAN, Manaqer.

a. II. LU6AN, manager.
the Middle Ages, st. jerome giving
advice to Laeta on the education of her
daughter which has slight influence
to this day on the education, of girls.
During these earlier centuries the
education was monastic in, character
and the convent played an important
role; the girls being walled in, SO to
speak, away from the great outside
world.
We saw Nine de Maintenon attempt
ing broader and more generous cul-
ture but her trial did not prove sue.
cessful and we found her lapsing back
into the methods of those before her
time.
The most influential advocate, how
ever, was Bishop Fenelon, who lived
from 1851 to Ills. He saw the great
error of keeping the girl ignorant of the
world and endeavored to remedy it by
advocating higher type of education
for girls. He says, 'The world never
dazzles so much as when one sees it
from afar without ever having. seen it
near at hand, or having been fortified
against it's seductions. Hence I should
fear worldly convent still more than
the world ITSELF" He claimed that
education should prepare them for their
duties, and I think this should be the
great purpose of education to-day to
prepare the girls for the activities Of
life, whether in the social world or
industrial. For her management in the
household he emphasized the prepara-
ton of four points: "a wise economy,
2. girls should be tr lined to neatness s
and order; 3. they should learn how
to care for servants; 4. girls should
be reared with careful regard to their
station in life."
With this short survey OF the opinion
of the education Of girls in the earlier
centuries, it might be we'll to look into
the education Of girls to-day. The
schools OF this land are open to girls as
we'll as to boys and with as much free
dom Of choice and range Of subjects.
We have often head It said, however,
that t. is is unnecessary since the girls
do not need this same education, but
ought to be fitted for housewives.
The boys in the past have been edu-
Gated that they might be better able to
solve the great problems of life and
there is no reason why the girls, equal
in intellectual powers, should not assist
in this great work. There is the great
social world on the one hand and the
great industrial world on the other for
which the girl must ft herself.
It is very obvious that girl must be
educated to take her place in the great
social world. Place side by side the
educated and the uuedueated girl-the
result is foreseen by i'll. The accurate
habits Of thought aud the polish Of
intelligence by which the scholar is
distinguished ought to ba no less care
fully sought in the training Of girls
than in that of men. This would bs
true it only for the charm which cuI-
ture gives. Thus we see that in dealing
with social difficulties alone, education
would be necessary.
Then too, every girl ought to be
educated in the culture of the body.
There is the correct clothing and
exercises which are very important
factors in maintaining health and q
knowledge Of which is of vital import
ance. 1 think domestic science and
physical training should FIJI large
part Of the girls education as they both
guard and promote her physical de-
velopment.
The greatest number of our girls
have to seek living and it is necessary
that they be fitted to meet this demand
Of future years. Can the girl be
expected to cope with the great prob
lens Of life if she is uneducated?
Milton has given US an excellent defini-
tion Of education which is, 'That which
hts 9 man to perform justly, skillfully
and magnanimopsly All the offices. both
private and public, Of peace and war"
and II il Tor This purpose onr girls are
being educated. Many Of our; girls seek
. train others and IL y obvious that|
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