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== Benjamin Rush, “Thoughts upon female education,” 1787 (Philadelphia) == | == Benjamin Rush, “Thoughts upon female education,” 1787 (Philadelphia) == | ||
| + | I found it interesting how Benjamin Rush considered a sound female education to be a "domestic education". He believed women needed to be "trained to manage efficient households, and as mothers, they had to raise virtuous citizens." (Woloch, 130) When he used the word "trained", he seemed to be implying that someone else would train women in their duties, meaning the men would. I found it ironic that Rush said, "It becomes us [the men] therefore to prepare them [women], by a suitable education, for the discharge of this most important duty of mothers." (Woloch, 131) What makes men so qualified to teach women how to do domestic and motherly duties, when they have no idea what those duties entail? Rush and other men felt it was their obligation to teach women to do jobs they were already doing. I also felt as though Rush assumed women could not do any of the jobs/talents he listed, such as learning the English language, or bookkeeping. I have a feeling that Rush and other men were under the impression that motherly and domestic duties were simple to understand and easy to do, yet I think Rush had never heard the saying "easier said than done." ---- Alex Mankarios | ||
== Judith Sargent Murray, 1790, “on the Equality of the Sexes” == | == Judith Sargent Murray, 1790, “on the Equality of the Sexes” == | ||
