13. Children should have a regular allowance of money from quite early years, and be trained to spend it rightly, and to keep accounts.
14. Should it be impossible for the home supervision and training to be carried out in harmony with the day school, either a private governess should be engaged, or the children sent from home as boarders.
SECTION II.
THE MORAL SIDE OF EDUCATION.
By Lucy H. M. Soulsby, of the Manor House School, Brondesbury Park. N.W., late Head Mistress of Oxford High School.
Lord, with what care hast thou begirt us round!
Parents first season us: then schoolmasters
Deliver us to laws; they send us bound
To rules of reason.
George Herbert.
Many girls leave college with a vague idea that they had better take up teaching, because it is the only way of earning a livelihood for which they are in the least prepared. Unfortunately their preparation, too often, consists merely in having been taught themselves. Having eaten dinners is some preparation for the career of a cook, but not much; and these young teachers may perhaps find an educational cookery-book useful! The comparison does not hold good altogether, for almost every woman has the instinct of motherhood in her, which makes her more or less a born teacher, while it is only a few who are born cooks. Still, every young woman finds help in talking to an older one, who has had the same work, made probably the same mistakes, and has found a practical way out of them. We all value practical experience; what else is training but practical experience systematised? But it is not every young teacher who has an experienced friend at hand, or who can afford to be regularly trained. It is hoped that this book may be, in printed form, such talk as she would welcome had she an experienced friend at hand.