Summary The Vindication Of The Rights Of Women By Wollstonecraft
FEMINIST PERSPECTIVE ON EDUCATION
Wollstonecraft, in her book ‘The Vindication of the Rights of Women’ (1792), says that the lack of good education for women is one of the biggest problem in the world. To her, women must be treated equally along with men because they too are much intelligent as men. She wanted a greater combination of the public as well as the private, for private boarding schools and home-schooling were equally important to a child’s academic and personal upliftment. She suggests that children should live at home but spend the day in school, they should attend school with the opposite gender and learn the same things with the same expectations. As they grow up, depending upon their social class they will pursue more advanced
Wollstonecraft, in her book ‘The Vindication of the Rights of Women’ (1792), says that the lack of good education for women is one of the biggest problem in the world. To her, women must be treated equally along with men because they too are much intelligent as men. She wanted a greater combination of the public as well as the private, for private boarding schools and home-schooling were equally important to a child’s academic and personal upliftment. She suggests that children should live at home but spend the day in school, they should attend school with the opposite gender and learn the same things with the same expectations. As they grow up, depending upon their social class they will pursue more advanced