

TWENTIETH CENTURY EDUCATION. 



'HE members of our affiliated societies 

 will be much interested in a new- 

 plan of co-operative work vhich 

 ?^j was presented before a large gath- 

 ering of Grimsby people at Maplehurst, the 

 home of the secretary, one Thursday in May, 

 by Mrs. John Hoodless, of Hamilton. The 

 subject of her address was "Twentieth 

 Century Education," and in it she pointed 

 out the weakness of the university training 

 for girls, in that it withdrew them too much 

 from sympathy and touch with any kind of 

 real productive industry ; and of the school 

 system of Canada in that it led the student 

 too much into a mere preparing to pass an 

 examination, without much regard to the 

 educational benefits of the course. 



The methods of the manual training of 

 Domestic Science Schools, lead the student 

 to study with the thought of immediately 

 putting that book work or lecture to a 

 practical test. At the Normal School of 



Domestic Science, Hamilton, young ladies 

 are now being prepared to become teachers, 

 and as fast as these young ladies graduate 

 they are at once employed in either public or 

 high schools, conducting certain classes in 

 this department. 



As an outcome of such training, Mrs. 

 Hoodless claims that a large number of the 

 now unemployed women of Canada and 

 England will be in a fair way of becoming 

 producers, as a result of their training. To 

 still further favor this scheme, she seeks 

 special provision for women at the O. A. C, 

 Guelph, where, in addition to a thorough 

 education in the principles of agriculture and 

 horticulture, they may be taught such prac- 

 tical work as egg packing, fruit packing, 

 preparing fowls for shipment, etc., so that 

 our produce could be exported to the great 

 markets of the world in such a condition as 

 to command the highest prices. 



In furtherance of her philanthropic pur- 



