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Title: School: a monthly record of educational thought and progress
Year: 1908 (1900s)
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Publisher: London
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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cular, have brought it about that all theHarpur Schools remain essentially day schools.The proportion of boarders in the High School maynot exceed one-fifth of the whole number. Thereare, accordingly, four boarding-house?, accom-modating about twenty-five girls each. These arein various parts of the town, all at short distancesfrom the school buildings, and from the playing-field. Miss Belchers rare and wonderful per?onalitysweetened and made easy and pleasant to thegirls a system of discipline marvellously perfect.Her rule was one of love, not of fear ; yet hersternness, where sternness was deserved, preventedany abuse of her gentle methods, and suppliedthe place of the punishments which have alwaysbeen conspicuous by their absence. (Often, bythe way, surprise is expressed at the apparentlack of both incentive and punishment at Bedford.There are no prizes, and the only unpleasant con-sequence which follows on work badly done is thenecessity of doing it over again better—a necessity
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EDUCATIONAL THOUGHT AND PROGRESS 103 naturally attended with some disgrace, when ittakes tlie form of a refusal.) The personaldevotion which Miss Belcher inspired, and hergreat natural gifts, enabled her to lead her girlsby the pleasant path of interest into a high regionof intellectual effort. The love of literature whichthey gain at Bedford is indeed a possession forever to them. One of the most characteristic features of theeducation given at the High School is the successfulgrappling with the task of applying means to anend. Of the 500 girls, of ages ranging from sevento twenty, who daily throng the rooms and corridorsof the school, not all can become, if they wish it,College Lecturers, or M.D.s, or High School mis-tresses, though Bedford is well represented inmost of the intellectual and artistic spheres opento women. So, careful provision is made in eachdepartment of the school (Upper, Middle, andLower) that the studies should be made to suitthe child, not the child the studies.

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