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New Zealand Times, Volume XLII, Issue 9630, 10 April 1917, Page 6

Lecturing in Adelaide last -week on ‘‘The Education of Women,” the Director of Tutorial Classes in South Australia (Hr H. Heaton) said that it was now generally admitted that it was folly to waste and neglect the intellect and personality, simply because those qualities dwelt in womanhood. Women must bo fitted by education to take their place as efficient members of society. The chief question was what sort of education was required. In order to answer that question it was necessary to analyse the position of women to-day. The great bulk of the fair sex. from the-economic point of view, lived lives almost entirely devoted to •domestic duties. That tended to make them become monotonous, and to degenerate into drudgery, and some factor was needed to counteract that condition. From the political point of view, woman was rapidly asserting her claim to an equal status with man, but in order that her part should bo effective some definite scheme of adult education for womanhood must be worked out. That was work which the Workers’ Educational Association attempted to do by the provision of classes for such subjects as were of special interest and value to women, whether in their personal capacities or in the discharge of their duties as citizens,