The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-02-01
ADMIRAL SEES EVIL
IN WOMAN TEACHER
Chadwick Says Present system
Is "WrOng and Tndignity
to the Boy"
CAUSE or EFFEMINACY
Thinks Influence of Woman
Upon Male Child Is In
furious to Nation.
CAUSE or EFFEMINACY

Rear Admiral French f.. Chadwick. re-
tired, who was chief OF staff Of Admiral
Sampson during the Spanish war and be-
fore his retirement president Of tho Naval
War College at Newport X. l.. writing IN
the current number Of the Educational
Rerier declares that woman tutelasc for
boys In the public schools of America has
resulted In "fcm,nized. emotional, illogical
manhood"
No woman. he says. whatever her abil-
ty may be, In able to bring up properly
q man child. because unconscousIy she
exerts a destructive influence on the mas
culine character Of the boy. woman. he
says. never really enters into the thoughts
Of men.
I'VE have In this result" writes Rear
Admiral Chadwick. the cause. in greatest
degree. OF our supineness in municipal az
fairs. in our inability 10 struggle against
the capture Of franchises. in the sitting
down Of our people and wanting every
thing done for them, in the general want
OF standupness. 1t Ia not that women are
not. In their way. active In public matters.
but the man, In the mans real way, is
not"
svital 0oestion,n He Says.
Rear Admiral Chadwick points out that
this "sub1ecting Of our young males to the
psychics Of the woman" with its "evil ef-
feet" Ia n great and vital question which
should be seriously considered at once"
In this connection he gives statistics show
ing that Of the total number OF 533. 606
teachers employed in the common schools
OF the country 423.27S are women and
only 110,32s men.
In 1911. Rear Admiral Chadwick states.
there were 100000 boys. from 10 to II
nj ii
OF a boys life" under instruction by these
teachers the majority of them women. in
the public schools.
Speaking OF education In general, the
kind he believes these 5000, 600 boys are
receiving, Rear Admiral Chadwick says
Il believe that we overrste the i'm
portance OF instruction in mere book
knowledge. There are. for the conduct
OF life in general. certain things desir-
able for one who has 10 make his way in
the professions. banking or in commerce
IN the larger sense as mathematics. to
any point for which there are time and
opportunity certain amount of chem
istry. moderate course in physics a
fair training in Ltain and some Greek
which should begin not later than TO- and
a good course In English All this the
boy with a fair mentality should GER
tainlN have by the time he IL II or Is
II he hasn't accomplished 20 much by
that time he will never accomplish any
thing.
woman Teacher 'Iudignity 70 Boy
INSTEAD Of 80 much book work for all
and particularly 80 much that is over the
heads of children. the main effort should
ne toward training in character: toward
honesty uprishtness in conduct
courtesy in which We have scant teach
ing and less result. manlness in boys
wonanln.ss in girls Without character
there is nothing"
u is of all things the most unreason.
able and illogical" the writer saws. that
this training In the first essential Of
forc" of character should be entrusted to
women.
Men think in terms of steamships
railways. battleships. war. finance. in a
WORD. the great energies of the world
wh'ch the woman mind never. in a prac-
teal way, really concerns itself w;,b
To put boy, therefore. under woman
tutelage At this most impressionable. char.
acter forming age, is to render violence
TO nature and gross wrong and ,r
dignity to the boy; it Is to do violence
10 that most precious possession. his
masculine nature, In a large sense hts
soul"
IL we are 10 maintain the "masrulinity'
OF the nation we must employ an eat,a,
women teachers for girls. and that too,
With an increase IN the salaries of the
men. Rear-Admral Chadwick declares.
He gives the present average yearly sal
airy for men as 1857 and for women as
s43b and says that the former should
be raised to 5000. the latter 10 $500
Points to Other Nations.
TIE writer mentions the recent eauai,.
sation OF pay for men and women teach
ers In New York city and says that
such procedure Is deep discrimina-
tion" against men teachers. which takes
away from them the possibility of es-
tablishing a family"
In conclusion, Rear-Admiral Chadwick;
says
II profoundly believe the effect of the
woman teacher upon the boy to he as
have here stated. And my belief IL
common not only 10 many thoughtful
persons. men and women. In our own
country, but 1t is so general in other Of
the greater nations that there has never
been any serious thought of adopting in
any large degree. our ways which IN this
subject have been wonderment to edu-