SELF-MADE WOMAN.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 25, 30 January 1934, Page 13

SELF-MADE WOMAN.

LEARNING ARITHMETIC.

The Countess of Oxford and Asquith <rave some piquant revelations of her zirlhood when speaking on education at the annual meeting of the London branch of the Independent Schools Association, Incorporated, writes the Daily "You may think I am an educated woman," she said. "You never made a creater mistake in your life. lam what they call a self-made woman. I have hade no education. I was so backward and stupid as a girl that my mother said, 'You had better learn arithmetic. . "So I went to the village schoolmaster to learn arithmetic. After a brief period he said, 'Miss Maggie (as he called me, my name being Margot) is so ignorant and so foolish and makes so much tomfoolery in the class that we would rather have her go. That was the end of arithmetic and I never had any othe* lessons. Later I went abroad and learned a little, mostly in Germany. "The home is the foundation of all education," continued Lady Oxford. "However well educated a boy or girl may be, later in life he may be permanently handicapped morallyby seeing his parents quarrel or by having a divorced father and mother when his holidays are divided among two houses neither of which is his home. It is also £"the home that religion h and that it more important than Latin, Greek or algebra."