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Excerpt from Eugenic Education for Women and Girls The measures now active and the methods in general use to prepare for family life in our elementary schools are fairly familiar to all. Though admirable in intention they are susceptible of much extension and improvement. In respect of the household arts, secondary schools are, I think, doing and experimenting far more than is generally known. At one time only the dullards were encouraged to pursue the purely technical practice of cookery in the school, then fuller post-scholastic courses were provided for girls who were not passing on to a University career or to some immediate wage-earning occupation, a method which is being still further developed with advantage. Meanwhile the Board of Education recognised the subject in secondary schools, and encouraged its introduction, so that there are now in existence quite a variety of courses, all of a more or less tentative character, it is true, but all making for good results. Some are wholly technical and distinctly limited in scope, others are linked with one or more school studies, such as elementary chemistry and physics, or, in the case of needle work, with design, while one or two schools are remodelling their curriculum in such a way as to correlate science, litera ture, art, indeed almost every subject in the time-table, with home, social, and civic life. One or two of these schools find it even possible for all the girls to share in the delight of practically applying their knowledge to the arts of cooking and cleaning, without depriving them of the satisfaction of testing their intellectual attainments by the prescribed standard, matriculation at the London University, for instance, or similar qualifying examinations. Other schools find it comparatively easy to provide some of the scientific foundations for housecraft, but do not yet see their way to make a place for their applications without calling in the co-operation of the parents, in order that some practice in the arts should be acquired in the home, hoping that this method may also serve to forge useful links between the girls' two centres of interest, home and school. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.