"One factor that he helped is the] large growth in the number of country Mouse schools. At least twenty or thirty historic houses including, Battle Abbey have been turned into girls' schools during the last few years. Two more large ones open next term, one in a Georgian mansion in Bedfordshire, another of earlier date in Northamptonshire.
"The advantages of living their school life in surroundings which silently inculcate those lessons of dignity, respect for the past, responsibility towards the future, self control and tranquillity—the " very lessons of which modern youth! stands s0 specially in need—are in-
"Practically, also, the free open-has helped to build up the!
jue of children born in the war: reared in cramped town! surroundings. The pre-war habit special buildings for schools may have led to hygiene, but those wildernesses of rod brick and white paint, cropping up in the frivolous fturroundings of large seaside or health resorts, did somehow emphasise materialism, "Among grey quadrangles, ce turies old trees and lawns and'spa ous rooms, the modern schoolgirl! learns, too, something of the graces which' went. to the making of the houses as homes.
"There 's far less of the institutional atmosphere when a school is kept in a private house.
"Others causes have contributed to the apper's__reformation—her parents are young enough to have felt in themselves the evil fruits of too great indiscipline; or, to take the Tower view, they are perhaps too egoistic to allow their daughters to be a nuisance to themselves.
"Authorities at school and at home are taking a wider view of girls'
and have perceived, the it does not consist of fartinations, the other that to. inst in "a good time" and nothing else for the child is to defeat their own! object.
"Sufficiently free to be perfectly at} case with her elders; sufficiently educated to recognize their superiorty; interested in the affairs of the great world, but healthily keen on those suitable to their age; char ingly yet plainly garbed; "athletic but not sporting; each and all imhued with a firm determination to work as well as play, both at school and afterwards—such is the modern Aepper. May hor reign endure."
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