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Oxford Observer, Volume XX, Issue 1, 14 December 1889, Page 6

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" However much we may deprecate the j.r3sent scheme o" higher education : for females, no one would dare for a moment to suggest that women should not be highly educated at all. The tp'iere of reason may indeed belong pre-eminently to man, but women reigns supreme in the realm of -the emotion, and this difference should be recognised as fundamental in the education of the two sexe«. Leave logic and arithmetic aaa eheini.al analysis to the male' portion cf the community, for notwifch-, standing a few. notorious successes and the rhetorical compliments of interested school governors, the majority of woman will do no more tnan demonstrate their own inferiority by competing with ma a in his arena. It soema to me (for I do not wish to clothe my individual opinion with the authoritative plural) -that the first and foremost object of a woman's higher education should be the correct devolopment of her emotional facilities. '. . Let our young girls, when they have attained an easy knowledge of common things, devote then. 1 time to the expansion of those attributes which constitute them sweetly feminine. Let them read-good, pure books of :■ : hiunan ; j interest, let them sing the glad worlij, ■ song with the pov,ts ? and learn ; the ; divine mysteries 6i 'art i and natjire."'