as for zeal for the public good, for the spreading of benefit — nothing of that ever attached to his learning. So too with the Saxon curriculum, which gave the young free rein in a country whose liberty is newly won and whose start is stumbling: the young returned to society strangers to it, disowning its customs, mocking its traditions, haughty toward it and weary of it; and there came of it a disorder that should never have been, and there was lost an effort and an expenditure that deserved to endure.
And here woman bursts in forcefully and thrusts herself upon the discussion with insistence; we can only pause, and we can do nothing but respond.
Woman, gentlemen, is of high worth in society, and of grave consequence to it. On her hands the rising generation is reared; in her arms its first traits and its abiding inclinations take shape; from her personality its personality springs, and from her soul its buds unfold. She therefore not only exacts from society care and attention: beyond this natural right, she deserves a special direction and a definite preparation, which will secure her the awareness and good judgment her function requires and the art and specialization her mission demands.
Whoever has known the Arab woman in our present evolution — the desertion of duty and responsibility with which she has been afflicted, the frivolity and sophistry in which she has sunk, the imitative refinement and outward civilization of which she has boasted — will grasp the measure of effort that must be spent and the greatness of the vigilance that must be mustered to rescue her from the talons of trifling and the claws of helplessness; so that she may give us men who will never be great in life and strong in its arenas unless her upbringing enfolds them as a mother, her inspiration as a friend, and her support as a conscious, generous wife...
There is no doubt that programs drawn from the educational missions, concerned with stuffing understandings and piling up
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