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Elizabeth Harrison’s Writings

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How Are We Educating Our Young Girls?, Elizabeth Harrison Jan 1916

How Are We Educating Our Young Girls?, Elizabeth Harrison

Elizabeth Harrison’s Writings

From the Introduction to When Children Err: A Book for Young Mothers, by Elizabeth Harrison

Harrison discusses the way in which past educational thought, as pointed out by Herbert Spencer, does not prepare individuals for motherhood, to which she describes the importance and necessity to do so.


The Scope And Results Of Mothers' Classes, Elizabeth Harrison Jan 1903

The Scope And Results Of Mothers' Classes, Elizabeth Harrison

Elizabeth Harrison’s Writings

In this outline, Harrison discusses motherhood in relation to Mother's classes. She describes the scope and aim of the classes to be the rationalization of the "unconscious nurturing element".

Reprinted from the proceedings of the National Education Association, 1903.