Intellectual Education and its Influence on the Character and Happiness of WomenCambridge University Press, 10/08/2017 - 292 páginas The Shirreff sisters, Emily (1814-97) and Maria (later Grey; 1816-1906) were pioneers in the field of education for girls in the wider context of women's rights. They jointly wrote the influential Thoughts on Self-Culture, Addressed to Women (1850), and Emily was briefly the principal of the college at Hitchin which became Girton College, Cambridge. The sisters founded the Girls' Public Day School Company in 1872; by 1905 it had opened 37 girls' schools across Britain. This 1862 second edition of Emily's book on intellectual education contains no alterations from the original of 1858. It considers the theory and purpose of education, and the particular issues of its application to girls, before suggesting appropriate curricula (including advice on the care of health and morals) for each age group from seven to eighteen, with a final chapter on life after the classroom and 'some peculiarities of woman's social position'. |
Índice
Importance attached to Education in the present day | 1 |
Section | 2 |
Consequences of the misuse of leisure e | 12 |
Frivolity compatible with information as a fashion | 18 |
Without a definite purpose real education impossible e | 25 |
Strength of character | 26 |
Objects of intellectual educationgrammar and geometry | 33 |
Natural history º | 39 |
Needlework e º | 120 |
Section 2 | 126 |
Limits of this work 32 | 132 |
Method of learning modern languages e | 140 |
Division of time | 146 |
Benefits to be derived from conversation e e e | 147 |
Different mode of dealing with difficulties | 154 |
Difficulties of education arising from small means | 166 |
Language as the instrument of reasoning | 45 |
Value of a course of elementary studies is its method | 51 |
Difference between homely cares and homely tastes s e | 57 |
Neglected in education e º | 63 |
Faults of temperviolence º 4 | 77 |
Selfishness s e º | 84 |
Religion not always a source of cheerfulness º | 91 |
Health influencing mental condition e e | 98 |
Difference of home and school authori | 104 |
Importance of watching moral symptoms with regard to the brain | 105 |
CHAPTER IV | 113 |
Hours of study | 172 |
Geology g e tº s º e e | 178 |
Political economy º e w | 232 |
Progress of opinion and knowledge | 239 |
Modifications if necessaryexpense of education s e | 250 |
Peculiar mental trials owing to an inactive life e | 256 |
A London season e e e t e e e | 262 |
Girls should be educated to look forward to single life | 269 |
Nature marks the relative position of men and women e | 275 |
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Intellectual Education, and Its Influence on the Character and Happiness of ... Emily Anne Eliza Shirreff Visualização integral - 1858 |
Intellectual Education and Its Influence on the Character and Happiness of Women Emily Anne Eliza Shirreff Visualização integral - 1858 |
Intellectual Education and Its Influence on the Character and Happiness of Women Emily Anne Eliza Shirreff Visualização integral - 1862 |
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