Public Schools for Girls: a Series of Papers on their History, Aims, and Schemes of Study, by Members of the Association of Headmistresses

Abstract

THIS is a book calculated to rejoice the heart of an educational worker, not so much for the wisdom it contains as for the evidence it affords of the spirit animating the educational policy of our leading English schools for girls. Here we have twenty-four essays relating to the subjects of girls' education, written by experienced headmistresses, who one and all seem to have a real zeal for their work, and a humble-minded desire to find the best way of doing it. There is a sense of sincerity, earnestness, and warmth in the essays that is highly pleasing, and a willingness to look at new proposals and plans that contrasts most favourably with the self-confidence, and subacid raillery sometimes affected by the high placed pedagogue.

Public Schools for Girls: a Series of Papers on their History, Aims, and Schemes of Study, by Members of the Association of Headmistresses.

Edited by Sara A. Burstall M. A. Douglas. Pp. xv + 302. (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1911.) Price 4s. 6d.