Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 January 1914 — Woman for Woman’s Work. [ARTICLE]

Woman for Woman’s Work.

Higher education in the future should recognise the fact that the majority, of the women take up the occupation of training children, the married ones a» mothers and many of the unmarried ones in the interest of mothers. Training children is the normal occupation of woman, and its importance in education has probably not been recognized because it has hitherto not been regarded as an intelligent pursuit Yet it is t!he most intellectual occupation in the. world, in no matter what walk of life. It calls always for great moral and carefully trained mental powers. What a great power a reading mother had to train the minds of her children! This normal occupation of women should be the main object henceforth in the education of women, and no longer should her eduction be a mere imitation of that of a man. On such a basis I believe higher education will surely perfect the home life and household joy. It certainly is not the chief end of a woman’s life to enter man’s occupation, as was intended when higher education was advocated for her. It 1b high time that that idea of an education for her was abandoned, and that the aim should be to develop in woman the the capacity and the powers that flt her to make life fuller of intellectual enjoyment and happiness, more productive, physically, mentally and spiritually. •