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ALFRED T. SCHOFIELD, ESQ., M.D., ON 



and our country has secured a torrent of good and expansion and 

 happiness through the brave struggles of fifty years ago. 



Of the actual difference in outlook between the mind of the Man 

 and that of the Woman, some very striking examples are being 

 given just now. Among my 500 past students are several who 

 took the places of men in boys' schools during the war. In every 

 case the headmaster said the woman was the more painstaking 

 and more interesting teacher, and yet in every case without exception 

 she was dismissed in favour of the returning man. Now, why 

 is this ? I believe I can explain it by a real difference in psychology. 



The verb " to teach " takes two accusatives — " I teach John 

 Latin." This is two affirmations, " I teach Latin, a subject," and 

 " I teach John, a child." Therefore there are two things to learn, 

 the Subject and the Child, and the man spends his chief energy on 

 the Subject, and the woman on the Child. It is, I believe, 

 universally admitted that the woman is the more conscientious 

 corrector of faulty exercises, the better encourager of the backward 

 and the stupid, and in the space of a term will get more learning, 

 and more accurately held, into the minds of a given class. The 

 man may tend to be faulty here, but his eyes are fixed on improving 

 himself in his own subject. If teaching Latin, he will take in a 

 classical review, if science he will spend hours alone in the 

 laboratory, trying a little research. In fact, ten years later, the 

 man tends to become the more brilliant scholar, and as the head- 

 master says, " In the long run he brings more honour to the school." 

 This division of aim between the Subject and the Child is not a 

 thing to lament, but to see in it the hand of a wise Creator who 

 has told off half the human race to deal with immaturity, and 

 to find its unfailing interest, not so much in the learning for 

 its own sake, as in the development (by its means) of the mind, 

 and heart, and taste, and character of childhood. We, the 

 unmarried women, are not the mothers of a small and particular 

 flock, but we are in the highest sense the Mothers of the 

 Nation. 



Mr. Martin L. Eouse said : — I must record my dissent from a 

 theory quoted by the learned lecturer, that originally a woman 

 was at the head of every gens or clan, the natural subdivision of 

 every primitive nation. This theory is mainly, if not wholly, derived 



