ရဲရင္ ့ေသာႏွလံုးသား/ ဂ်ဴး

ႀကယ္စင္တံတားကမ္းပါးႏွင္းၿဖဴ/ ဂ်ဴး

ေရေမ်ာသီး/ ဂ်ဴး

ဖို+မ ဆက္ဆံေရး/ ေဒါက္တာေအာင္ခင္ဆင္ ့

ရွင္ေစာပု/ ခ်စ္ဦးညိဳ

ေခ်ာင္းႀကည္ ့တတ္သူတေယာက္ရဲ ့ည/ မင္းခိုက္စိုးစံ

ကေဝပိ်ဳ၏နိဒါန္း/အႀကည္ေတာ္

ေတာ/ လင္းေဝၿမိဳင္

အိုင္ဒီယာအက္ေဆးမ်ား/ ေနဝင္းၿမင္ ့

Burma and the Karens/ Author: Dr. San C. Po C.B.E. (1870-1946) (အပို္င္း(၂)

CHAPTER VIII - KAREN WOMANHOOD

"Her office there to rear, to teach,
Becoming as is meet and fit
A link among the days, to knit
The generations each with each."

Tennyson

It has truly been said "The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world." A country or nation which disregards its womanhood could never be counted truly great; whereas a nation that respects its womanhood has invariably proved itself superior to other nations. It is said that at the height of the glory of Rome, the class of people that wielded great power were the Greek women who had the care of Roman homes as well as that of the children, in their education and up-bringing. The Greek women so, unostentatiously did their work that the public at large were not aware of it. Karen women, with their simple ways, their gentle and modest manner, have won the respect and admiration not only of their own people but also of the people of other nationalities who have known and observed them.
Co-education has been a great success among the Karens. It has been proved to be such for the past fifty years or more. At a meeting of a well-educated and talented group of Burmans, a Burmese lady made the following remark: "I have attended a Christian Karen co-educational school as well as a Burmese Girls' school, and my candid opinion is that co-education among the Karens will always be a success, while among the Burmese it always is bound to be a failure. There is something in the nature of the Burmese boys and girls that will never be compatible with co-education. I am Burmese and am fully aware of what I have said."
KAREN STUDENTS AT JUDSON COLLEGE
In educational as well as in religious matters Karen women have taken a prominent part. They love English music, and have the ability to learn, with facility, simple as well as difficult music. On the 10th March, 1927, the Bassein-Myaungmya Karen Women's Association held a meeting at Bassein. The Christian women of Bassein-Myaungmya and other districts were present. It was the fiftieth anniversary of the Association and the number of women present was estimated to be about four thousand. The programme consisted of a musical concert and several addresses of welcome by wives of prominent pastors and elders. Their speeches were thrilling and inspiring. The musical entertainment was very enjoyable, and the catering was efficiently conducted in spite of the large number of guests. One woman proudly declared that they had not in vain striven to show the people that man's aid was not absolutely essential to women. General acquiescence was given to her statement because her boast had been amply justified.