Board Inspector or other expert going round
would easily condemn the whole system root
and branch, but I found myself wondering,
if starting from nothing, in the midst of civil
war, a blockade, and foreign wars, my
countrymen and women would have done so
well. In any case I am just lost in admiration
at what I have seen accomplished by these
men and women, many of them without any
previous training for the work they are now
doing so well.
There is much discussion as to the wisdom or otherwise of co-education. I am a prejudiced observer as I have always advocated this system. I did not see anything in the relationships of these boys and girls different from what I have seen elsewhere, except that neither children or grown-ups on the Continent are as prudish and self-conscious as we are about natural functions and sex matters generally. In any case, I saw no sign or gesture of which I could complain ; but I did see a freedom from restraint, a natural sort of relationship amongst the boys and girls that seemed to show they were being trained to respect themselves and to be respectful to others.
On three occasions I had a meal with the teachers and nurses in these boarding schools, and at every school I visited was able to see the food supplied to the children. At each
