Beecher Thesis

Beecher made a case that opened the teaching profession to women when at that time on the 1800’s men were the ones teaching. She had said that women “would make better teachers than the men currently presiding over most classrooms (Meiners, 20). She is the one that helped initiate the panic of male teachers in the classroom by calling them “incompetent” and “intemperate… coarse, hard, unfeeling men, too lazy or stupid” to be entrusted with the care of children. Beecher appealed to the stereotype and pushed for middle class white women, in particular, into public view to work outside the home. With that, in an annual report it was noted that replacing male teachers with women saved the state $11,000, and during that time also that careers in