Give a chance
You know, of course, of Miss Margaret McMillan and her nursery school for poor children at Deptford. Can you have this and similar places reported on fully?
What is needed is the establishment of nursery schools in every district where the children may early in life be taught cleanliness, self-respect and be accustomed to comfort and decent surroundings. Be treated in short like human beings and given some inducement to live. The poor parents - wretchedly poor through no fault of their own are for the most part (there are always exceptions) - only too willing to co-operate and let their children have the advantages denied to themselves.
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