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The fact that there are twice as many girls whose education in Hebrew, etc., is being neglected as there are boys indicates a defect pregnant with as much mischief as any other that has been named.

There is, I wrote 011 a former occasion, an unreasonable, indefensible notion prevalent that it is not necessary for girls to know as much as boys, even where it is admitted that they should know something. There could be no more fatal error than this. The devotional feelings, if not even the spiritual nature of the gentler sex, are more easily and lastingly aroused than those of the other sex. It is simply destruction to Judaism to nourish the idea that the future wives and mothers of Jews should not even be more embued with the spirit and ideals of their race than the future men. From their earnestness and steadfastness the husband should learn to remember his duties in the struggle for existence at their knees, and from their lips the future infant should first learn to lisp its prayers, to exercise its young, ardent imagination with the annals of its race.

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Excerpt from The Jewish Education Question in Melbourne: With the Views Thereon of the Rev. Joseph Abrahams, M.A., Ph; D., And the Rev. Joseph Friedlander

The fact that there are twice as many girls whose education in Hebrew, etc., is being neglected as there are boys indicates a defect pregnant with as much mischief as any other that has been named.

There is, I wrote 011 a former occasion, an unreasonable, indefensible notion prevalent that it is not necessary for girls to know as much as boys, even where it is admitted that they should know something. There could be no more fatal error than this. The devotional feelings, if not even the spiritual nature of the gentler sex, are more easily and lastingly aroused than those of the other sex. It is simply destruction to Judaism to nourish the idea that the future wives and mothers of Jews should not even be more embued with the spirit and ideals of their race than the future men. From their earnestness and steadfastness the husband should learn to remember his duties in the struggle for existence at their knees, and from their lips the future infant should first learn to lisp its prayers, to exercise its young, ardent imagination with the annals of its race.

About the Publisher

Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Excerpt from The Jewish Education Question in Melbourne: With the Views Thereon of the Rev. Joseph Abrahams, M.A., Ph; D., And the Rev. Joseph Friedlander

The advantages of the daily teaching are that the instruction can be made more even; that, provided anything like regularity of attendance be attained, the students need not be required to risk exhaustion by a too lengthy lesson after their day's school work, and that an occasional absence will neither entail much loss on the individual child nor cause the teacher much embarrassment. Its disadvantages are that it necessitates a full staff of teachers to each school, and that a number of parents would prefer that the children should devote some hours weekly to the study of music and other accomplishments.

On the other hand, while the method of alternate-day lessons has the advantages of enabling one staff of teachers to instruct a double set of classes, and, moreover, of meeting the wishes of the class of parents referred to, it is open to the serious objections that a child, by missing one lesson, might be four or five days without instruction, that there is a tendency to keep the children away from their secular schools on Hebrew days (a most unnecessary and injurious custom), and, besides, it would render impracticable the employment of State school buildings for our classes.

Let us suppose, however, that this part of the question were finally settled, that we had succeeded in opening a sufficient number of schools, and that we had enrolled every possible child. We should even then have only done one-half our work, and that the less difficult one. There would still remain the task of placing our Hebrew teaching on a scientific and successful basis. To the statement of this fact in the May pamphlet I was, in reply, taunted with the assertion that I had cast an undeserved slur on the teachers of Hebrew; that, even if the statement were true, it only implied that the teachers were incompetent. The statement is true, so obviously undeniably true that it must be emphasized in every discussion of the question; but it by no means implies any reflection on the Hebrew teachers. I am far from pretending that the standard of knowledge among our teachers is unimpeachable. The Rev. J Friedlander shrewdly remarks that a sure measure of the Vitality of the Jewish religion in any country is the status of Hebrew educa tion prevailing amongst its professors.

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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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