Education and Votes for Women
By Elizabeth Cooper
(Author of “My Lady of the Chinese Court Yard,” “Women of Egypt,” “Market for Souls,” “The Harem and the Purdah,” “Living Up to Billy,” etc. From “Woman and Education” in “Educational Foundations.”)
That this enlargement of the educational horizon of women in Britain means necessarily “Votes for Women” may or may not be inferred. Certain it is that the advancing social and economic arrangements of modern society will add continually to the allotment to women of tasks and responsibilities unknown to them in the past. Women will accept such responsibilities in accordance with their ability and training in competition with men, and their trained intelligence will become year by year a more widely recognized fact in the minds of University authorities and in the adjustment and enlargement of curriculum and University life.
Democratization of Learning
By Charlotte J. Cipriani
(American contemporary. Teacher, writer on educational problems. From “Elimination of Waste in Elementary Education,” in “Education”—a monthly magazine.)
Two processes of “democratization” are conceivable in the educational system of a nation; one consists in lowering educational standards and aims to the level that makes them readily acceptable and accessible to the masses; the other consists in gradually raising the intellectual level of the masses to the level of high and efficient educational standards. The admission of too early specialized “vocational training” in a public school system has a dangerous leaning towards the first process of democratization, which is apt ultimately to defeat its own end. That the second is of necessity a far lower and more laborious one, does not invalidate its superiority.