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THINGS AS THEY MIGHT BE.
which has been brought before Parliament during the last few years, on which it is not as directly important that right opinions should be formed by women as by men.
The higher education already spoken of would serve as a preparation for literary work, and as a groundwork for more definite technical instruction in every department of art. And, lastly, an extended course of study is, above all things, necessary for those who are to undertake the office of teaching others. The incompleteness of the education of schoolmistresses and governesses is a drawback which no amount of intelligence and goodwill can enable them entirely to overcome. It is obvious that for those
