Sections 1 The good effects resulting from attention to private education will ever be very confined,… 2 At school, boys become gluttons and slovens, and, instead of cultivating domestic… 3 But, what boy ever recollected with pleasure the years he spent in close confinement, at an… 4 Nothing, indeed, can be more irreverent than the cathedral service as it is now performed in… 5 Can it then be a matter of surprise, that boys become selfish and vicious who are thus shut… 6 In order then to inspire a love of home and domestic pleasures, children ought to be… 7 Yet, how can these things be remedied whilst schoolmasters depend entirely on parents for a… 8 I have already animadverted on the bad habits which females acquire when they are shut up… 9 This argument may be carried further than philosophers are aware of, for if nature destined… 10 History brings forward a fearful catalogue of the crimes which their cunning has produced,… 11 But nothing of this kind could occur in an elementary day-school, where boys and girls, the… 12 In this plan of education, the constitution of boys would not be ruined by the early… 13 Besides, what can be more indelicate than a girl's coming out in the fashionable world? 14 I do not forget the popular opinion, that the Grecian statues were not modelled after nature. 15 This habitual cruelty is first caught at school, where it is one of the rare sports of the… 16 I do not like to make a distinction without a difference, and I own that I have been as much… 17 The libertinism, and even the virtues of superior men, will always give women, of some… 18 Men, are however, often gratified by this kind of fondness which is confined in a beastly… 19 But, allowing what is very natural to man—that the possession of rare abilities is really… 20 In public schools women, to guard against the errors of ignorance, should be taught the…
Start Learning Wollstonecraft's constructive proposal: a national system of co-educational day schools, teaching boys and girls together, to cultivate reason and civic virtue in both sexes rather than confining girls to private, ornamental instruction.
Proposal for co-educational national day schools Reason-based citizenship for both sexes Critique of private, sex-segregated education
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