The Archive · 1928

Training Homemakers

The preparation is one of training Chinese girls to be competent homemakers and practical citizens, and all subjects in the General Course have been planned with this faun in mind, The Special Course Teads to the training of special talents and interests. College preparation is provided also. Chiefly, however, the aim is to develop the student's personality and to encourage her own particular bents fand inclinations. Miss Wong feels Hat in so doing the most complete type of womanhood is made possible.

The student's enthusiasm is not ailled by routine under Miss Wong's curriculum, and there is a. well-Founded attention to out-of-door activities. The health of the students is a prime consideration fand physical examinations are conducted by a schoo) physician. Sports fand corrective and aesthetic exer cises are stressed, also To use her gwn wards, Miss Wong, who impresses the observer a thoroughly competent educator despite her youth and charm, intends that the "life of the student should be simple and wholesome."

"The atmosphere of @ normal home combined with the regularity and. discipline of a school are our chief considerations," she said. "Good mann eve are taught, and com. mon sense is developed,' For the average git} we regard these as important as a knowledge of higher Tunthematics. Each student is encouraged to\ share in self-govern-rent in the school."

And in conclusion, Miss Won told her interested visitor that she felt her experiment would reap a delightful harvest as the best type of feminine woman was, to her tind, able to make her place in the world in a more lasting way then that other less prepossessing: type, the Amazon, Tu the same connection, another school, for primary grades, is under the supervision of another sister of Miss Wong, Mrs. Ethel W. 100, 20 that this family may traly be said to be educationalists. L.B.W.

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