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In old China, most unfortunately, some scholars believed that women's virtues had not gone hand in hand with knowlede. And ass a consequence, the importance of public education for women was relegated to the background. Not many young girls went to the rural school. If a girl was fortunate, she would be taught from five to about twelve years old by a tutor. As she reached a certain age, say twelve or thirteen, she usually began to be separated from her male relatives and associates. She learned domestic tasks under the guidance of her mother or grand-mother. 　In 1834, a group of English women started an organization known as "The society for Promoting Female Education in the East." When the five treaty ports were opened to foreigners in 1842, Miss Aldersey went to Ningpo that year, and two years later, established the first modern Chinese school for girls. On one hand, the first girls' school established and supervised by Chinese was opened with difficulty in Shanghai in 1897. On March the eighth, 1907, the Chinese government issued thirty-six regulations for girls' normal schools and twenty for girls' elementary schools. On this memorial date women's education first had a place in the governmental educational system of China. 　The missionary educators realized the importance of education for girls. Numerous primary and secondary schools for girls were founded during the nineteenth century by missionaries. But even to Chinese Christians, the education of their daughters hardly seemed desirable, especially if the girl's chances of a good marriage were reduced because of big feet. In early twentieth century, with the growth of Chinese society, mission schools for girls gained general assent. Some educators were talking of raising the level of their schools of that of colleges. From 1919 a number of universities and colleges became co-educational. By the time, there were only three women's college and they were Christian colleges. Yenching College (formerly Union College for Women in Peking) was started in 1908. Ginling College was opened in 1915. Hwa Nang College began work above the middle school in 1914. 　Thus the mission schools became the pioneer of education for girls. Christian colleges also became the pioneer of women's higher education. They maintained their leadership in the relative emphasis given to female education.