STRANGE HIGH SCHOOLS.
Among the world’s most interesting high schools for girls are the Haifa, outside Jerusalem, and the Uganda school for the daughters of chiefs. Miss H. A. Gardener is the English headmistress of the former. At' the latter school there is a special curriculum, examinations and certificates are being evolved to enable the girls to devote four hours a day to ! the growing and cooking of food —consisting chiefly of forty-seven different varieties of banana. This school was started at the express wish of the chiefs, who read the best English literature—with a special bias towards Dickens — and want their sisters and wives to share their intellectual pleasures with them. It will give the King of Uganda real pleasure to learn that the school lias been affiliated, to the Headmistresses’ Association of England. He will learn the news from Miss Faith Wordsworth, the school’s famous headmistress, and a member of the poet’s family.
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Taranaki Daily News, 20 July 1929, Page 19
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155STRANGE HIGH SCHOOLS. Taranaki Daily News, 20 July 1929, Page 19
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