Domestic Work
MISS 11. C. Popper, of Liverpool, lecturing in the section of Educational Science, 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 needle work.
“Domestic science has as much claim to be a real educating instrument as any other in proparing 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 towards lifo which comes from wide knowledge, the right feelings and practical ability. “The great majority of mothers through many generations had little 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 England’s happiness ,and prosperity."
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17947, 26 November 1932, Page 10
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154Domestic Work Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17947, 26 November 1932, Page 10
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