Hours With Girls (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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If I repeat the word system, I am prepared to hear some of you say, Oh, do not come to us with that old story. We have been told to be systematic from our cradles, and really there is nothing which we are so tired of hearing. Patience, dear girls. I can sympathize with that one of you who said to me the other day, I am emancipated at last! I have spent six years of rou tine at boarding-school, my life measured by the sound of bells; a bell for this recitation, and a bell for that; and now I am free. But, she acknowleged frankly, I confess that I don't know what use to make of my freedom. There is a sort of reaction which most young people experience when, after graduation, they find themselves absolved from attendance upon the will of teachers and governors, and it finds expression in some such manner as this. Yet no conscientious and thoughtful person can long be contented to drift aimlessly through life. That training amounts to little which has trained towards nothing; and the best school, if it has simply crammed, and not given force and im pulse to right and unselfish and generous endeavor, has written itself a failure.

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