Shall We Educate Our Homemakers?

Several years ago a certain young married woman took part in a debate on the subject: "Resolved: that a college education unfits a woman for matrimony." That evening, having come off with the laurels of the occasion, she was gloating to her husband that she had proved beyond a doubt that college does not unfit a woman for home responsibilities, when to her horror he very quietly and emphatically replied, "That may all be true in theory, but it does unfit her in practice."