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Updated: May 20, 2025
We must feed the hungry and clothe the naked, but that is not helping them, that is propping them. The beggar who asks you to help him does not want to be helped. He wants to be propped. He wants you to license him and professionalize him as a beggar. You can only help a man to help himself. Help him to grow.
=No "Profession."= The fact is that, in the lower ranks of the teachers' calling, there is really no profession. The personality of many who engage in the work is too ordinary to professionalize any calling. =Weak Personalities.= This condition of affairs has grown partly out of the fact that we have not, in the different states and in the country at large, a sufficiently high standard.
The failure to dignify and professionalize household labor is particularly hard on the unskilled girl of little education who respects herself, has pretty clear ideas of her "rights" under our system of government, and who expects to make something of herself. There are tens of thousands of such in the country; very many of them realize clearly the many advantages of household labor.
The persistent belittling for campaign purposes of the Business of Being a Woman I have repeatedly referred to in this little series of essays; indeed, it has been founded on the proposition that the Uneasy Woman of to-day is to a large degree the result of the belittlement of her natural task and that her chief need is to dignify, make scientific, professionalize, that task.
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