Hints on Home Training and Teaching

Excerpt from Hints on Home Training and Teaching

These Hints on Home Training and Teaching (although it is hoped they may be of use to governesses and private tutors) are addressed also to parents. The increased educational opportunities now afforded to girls and women justify the belief that in the next generation mothers, will take a large part in the teaching and training of the young, at all events in the middle classes; and, even where parents have not the leisure or the desire to superintend in detail the studies of their children, they can go far to form in them those habits which constitute the foundation of their intellectual as well as their moral future, and can assist the day-school or the private tutor by an in?uence always most valuable, when wise. To enable parents thus to contribute to the training of their children, is one of the objects of this treatise.