A modern girls' school, equipped as scores are now equipped throughout the country, was of course not to be found in 1858, when I first became a school boarder, or in 1867, when I ceased to be one.
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It was in the year 1820, when I was nearly nine years old, that I first went to a regular school.
How little those who are schoolgirls of today can realize what it was to be a schoolgirl in the fifties or the early sixties of the last century!
Female schools might be comprised in the list of those worthy the public patronage, with great propriety.
The prevailing view was that girls were outside of school because of the resistance of families to their education. But when I visited a local village, what everyone told me - the chiefs, the parents, the children - was that girls weren't in school because it was the boys that had a better chance of getting paid work in the future.
Today in America, we are trying to prepare students for a high tech world of constant change, but we are doing so by putting them through a school system designed in the early 20th Century that has not seen substantial change in 30 years.
I went to the local schools, the local state primary school, and then to the local grammar school. A secondary school, which technically was an independent school, it was not part of the state educational system.
At boarding school there wasn't much time for much of anything except education.
A girl didn't get an athletic scholarship until the fall of 1972 for the very first time.
The schools ain't what they used to be and never was.
Nor, in our own country, must we fail to take notice of the establishment of School Boards.
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