.ltThe question of education

The Times,
22 January 1913

Sir,-Sir Edward Clarke is reported to have said, at the Queen's Hall last night, that women are "much less educated than men," and apparently he is anxious to keep them so, for "studying the political affairs of the country" would make woman "a much worse mother and a much less pleasant wife."  The doctrine that ignorance is wholesome for women has always been popular with some members of the stronger sex.  Sir Edward Clarke will remember Dr. Johnson's explanation of it:- "Men know that women are an over-match for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or most ignorant.  If they did not think so they could never be afraid of women knowing as much as themselves."
Yours faithfully.
ELEANOR CECIL.
25, Grove-end-road, N.W., Jan. 21.

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