FEMALE TEACHERS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XCIII, Issue 10597, 5 March 1895, Page 3

FEMALE TEACHERS.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir, Your correspondent “Housekeeper” wants to know why girls enter a profession eo crowded as that of teaching. Well, why do girls enter any profession, when all are crowded ? Simply because they must try to earn a living for themselves, so they take up tha work foe which they have a preference. It io ridiculous for “ Housekeeper ” to say that at marriage a skilled workwoman gives place to an unskilled one. Of what use ia our elaborate schema of training teachers if it sends them out into the world “ unskilled.” She speaks of tho young tsa having tha world all before them. Yes, bub if they are not to bo allowed to work at tha beginning of their journey, if they are to wait until “ Housekeeper” and her sat retire, how are they to take up the yoke when their journey is nearly ended? Her statement that tho employment of a riaglo woman puts a married cue out of work needs but little comment. If a married woman wants work, surely she can find plenty in her own home, it only to look after the comfort of him who is supposed to be tho bread-winaei- ? The Women’s Institute seem to think that married women will have more tenderness, sympathy and patience with our little ones chan single teachers ; but how can they show these qualities for other people’s children when they leave their own to the care of hirelings ?—I am, &c., A HUSBAND.