{"id":1524,"date":"2021-08-18T12:50:08","date_gmt":"2021-08-18T12:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/?p=1524"},"modified":"2021-08-18T12:50:08","modified_gmt":"2021-08-18T12:50:08","slug":"whats-wrong-with-finishing-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/2021\/08\/18\/whats-wrong-with-finishing-school\/","title":{"rendered":"What’s wrong with finishing school?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I saw a link to a video about a Nordic school that creates the perfect housewife.<\/a> (I didn’t watch the video. It’s more than an hour long.) <\/p>\n

I can hear the groans of disapproval. This sort of thing just isn’t done! <\/p>\n

Why? <\/p>\n

When did we lose the idea of learning (by which I mean studying, and being tested on) how to live with grace and style? <\/p>\n

Not every woman will he a housewife.<\/i> <\/p>\n

Okay. So what? Isn’t it worth learning how to make a house inviting and pleasant? <\/p>\n

We have magazines about it, and I’m sure there are YouTube videos, but what’s wrong with classes? You’re not going to become a Stepford Wife just because you learn some basic lessons about how to be a good housewife. <\/p>\n

We’re all conditioned to have this response: but what about the men? What do they have to do?<\/i> <\/p>\n

I reject the premise (that everything that applies to women has to have a male corollary, and vice versa.) That’s a modern sickness. <\/p>\n

But in any event, there are things men should learn as well, and there’s no reason men and women can’t learn many of the same things. <\/p>\n

If I were to create a school curriculum, it would include things like etiquette, ballroom dancing, martial arts, basic handyman skills, personal finance, and how to make a home pleasant. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I saw a link to a video about a Nordic school that creates the perfect housewife. (I didn’t watch the video. It’s more than an hour long.) I can hear the groans of disapproval. This sort of thing just isn’t done! Why? When did we lose the idea of learning (by which I mean studying, … Continue reading “What’s wrong with finishing school?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1524"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1525,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1524\/revisions\/1525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}