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"A more advanced institution than the academy, the antebellum female seminary sought to imitate some features of the male college curriculum. Seminaries required or taught classical languages, eschewed polite accomplishments, and admitted only older students who passed examinations...The very name "seminary," usually associated with the ministry, implied some type of professional training." (Woloch 161) I don't think that these female seminaries were strictly theological schools, like seminaries are today. It appears that religion was integrated more into the fabric of everyday life (see the mill rules)than now, so perhaps the schools were religious in that way, but I don't think that equates to a clergy-training school. --Stef L. | "A more advanced institution than the academy, the antebellum female seminary sought to imitate some features of the male college curriculum. Seminaries required or taught classical languages, eschewed polite accomplishments, and admitted only older students who passed examinations...The very name "seminary," usually associated with the ministry, implied some type of professional training." (Woloch 161) I don't think that these female seminaries were strictly theological schools, like seminaries are today. It appears that religion was integrated more into the fabric of everyday life (see the mill rules)than now, so perhaps the schools were religious in that way, but I don't think that equates to a clergy-training school. --Stef L. | ||
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| + | In response to the previous comments it appears that women could only seriously enter the world of higher education through the religious institutions. Mary Beth - you make an interesting point in the differences between the two readings, perhaps it can be interpreted through the evolving ideas on women's education in that it did not necessarily need such heavy religious overtones for it to be socially acceptable for women to be educated. --Rachel T. | ||
== Miss Burnham’s Report, “A Choctaw Mission School,” 1824 == | == Miss Burnham’s Report, “A Choctaw Mission School,” 1824 == | ||
