Women Teachers’ Moral Responsibility

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Oct 17, 1906

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 32, No. 40.

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Women Teachers’ Moral Responsibility

The question as to whether the rising generation is improving morally, as compared with past generations, is one which might be considered with interest and perhaps with profit by school-teachers. Not so very long in the past male teachers were largely in the majority over female teachers. This is not the case at present, and the ratio is reversing rapidly. Take California, for instance: In seven years the number of teachers as a whole has increased 1,933, while the number of male teachers has decreased 250. At this rate it will not be many years until there will be no male teachers below the high-school grade. Are the women teachers fully considering their increased responsibility?