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A 3 page essay that discusses the arguments expressed by Mary Wollstonecraft in her essay "On National Education" (1792). The writer discusses the points made by Wollstonecraft regarding education for women and why this was considered radical in its day. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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of the Rights of Women (1792). In this text, Wollstonecraft outlined her overall perspective on education, which included the radical notion that not only should girls receive an education comparable
to that of boys, but that public schools should be co-educational. Wollstonecraft considered education for women to be important because she observed how the lack of such education tended
to make women silly and supercilious. She pictures women as obsessed with manipulation and petty concerns and argues that education would aid them to better fulfill the "peculiar duties which
nature has assigned them," i.e. the duties of motherhood (Wollstonecraft, 2004). She states that the "custom of confining girls to their needle, and shutting them out from all political
and evil employments" serves to "narrow" their minds and make them "unfit" as mothers (Wollstonecraft, 2004). As this illustrates, Wollstonecraft was not so radical as to argue against the
basic position of women in traditional society as wives and mothers, but rather based her argument on a rational appeal that education would help them fulfill this role, not
hinder it, by making women better human beings. She proposes that an "enlightened" nation should try to see what effect reason would have on women, bringing "them back to nature
and their duty, and allowing them to share the advantages of education and government with man," which Wollstonecraft indicates will make women "become better, as they grow wiser and become
free" (Wollstonecraft, 2004). Additionally, she points out, that this experiment cannot injure women, as it would not be possible for women to become "more insignificant than they are at
present." Wollstonecraft bases her argument on personal observation and study. From her text, it is obvious that she has visited personally a number of schools and also that she
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