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the resource of needlework, they learn music and drawing besides. As women are not expected to take part in political affairs, they are taught history. As men do, boys learn mathematics instead. In physical science, astronomy and botany are considered the ladies' department. Chemistry and mechanics being the branches most directly applicable to domestic uses, are reserved for boys.
These distinctions ought rather, however, to be spoken of as a thing of the past. The educators of boys and girls respectively are learning and borrowing from each other.[1] An approximation is
- ↑ With equal need, if what Lord Russell says is true:—'As it is at present, there is no doubt that women of the higher ranks have much more knowledge and information when their education is finished
