WHY GIRLS SHOULD LEARN DOMESTIC WORK
Miss H. C. Pepper, of Liverpool, lecturing in the section of EducationScience on “Domestic Science and Mental Training,” at the British Association meeting, said that many girls still went through the whole of their school life without any instruction in such subjects as cookery, laundry work, housewifery and needlework; “Domestic science has as much claim to be a real educating instrument as any other in preparing girls for the complicated business of life and it is as essential as English, mathematics, chemistry or foreign languages for developing that confidence and courageous attitude toward 3 life which comes from wide knowledge the right, feelings and pi'actical ability. “The great majority of mothers through many generations had litfle training in anything but domestic science, very little so-called book learning, and yet they built up a home life second to none in the world and which is the foundation of Englr.nd’s happiness and prosperity.”
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Matamata Record, Volume XIX, Issue 1693, 6 January 1936, Page 2
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