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SEX IN EDUCATION.

Perhaps it should be mentioned in this con­nection, that, throughout this paper, education is ftot used in the limited and technical sense of intellectual or mental training alone. By saying there is a boys way of study and a girls way of study, it is not asserted that the intellectual process which masters Juvenal, German, or chemistry, is different for the two sexes. Education is here intended to include what its etymology indicates, the drawing out and development of every part of the system; and this necessarily includes the whole man­ner of life, physical and psychical, during the educational period. Education, says Wor­cester, comprehends all that series of in­struction and discipline which is intended to enlighten the understanding, correct the tem­per, and form the manners and habits, of youth, and fit them for usefulness in their fu­ture stations. It has been and is the mis­fortune of this country, and particularly of New England, that education, stripped of this, its proper signification, has popularly stood for studying, without regard to the physical