A School for Brides (2015)
“The gentlemen might have come calling and stayed from morning through night had Miss Quince not placed a restriction upon the hours of social interaction.
“This is an educational institution, and some learning had best take place, or we shall be guilty of misrepresentation,” she said in gentle reproof, shooing the young men out into the open air.
A wall of silent opposition greeted this remark, since, after all, the primary purpose of the school was to help the students into advantageou...s marriages, and a group of highly eligible young men actually on the spot seemed more to the point than learning geography or painting on ivory. Several of the young ladies rather enjoyed learning for its own sake, but at heart they knew it was an irrelevance to the accepted and avowed purpose of their lives: marriage, motherhood, and the management of a household. Being also subject to the usual human frailties, they welcomed the break in their studies, for they were disinclined to work hard on skills that nobody—not even themselves—ever believed they would put to practical use.MoreLess
“This is an educational institution, and some learning had best take place, or we shall be guilty of misrepresentation,” she said in gentle reproof, shooing the young men out into the open air.
A wall of silent opposition greeted this remark, since, after all, the primary purpose of the school was to help the students into advantageou...s marriages, and a group of highly eligible young men actually on the spot seemed more to the point than learning geography or painting on ivory. Several of the young ladies rather enjoyed learning for its own sake, but at heart they knew it was an irrelevance to the accepted and avowed purpose of their lives: marriage, motherhood, and the management of a household. Being also subject to the usual human frailties, they welcomed the break in their studies, for they were disinclined to work hard on skills that nobody—not even themselves—ever believed they would put to practical use.MoreLess
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