An Address On Female Education

Author : William Johnston
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330338995
Total Pages : 25 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (389 download)

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Download or read book An Address on Female Education written by William Johnston and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-16 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from An Address on Female Education: Delivered at Columbus, December 31, 1844 It has puzzled the heads of the wise ones for ages, to find out what peculiar kind of education is suited to the minds of males, and what to the minds of females. This question has arisen from a false ascription of sex to the human mind. We have heard so much about male education, and female education, that in public estimation, both mind and education have been divided into masculine and feminine; and these distinctions have been kept up, till one might suppose that woman belonged to a different order of beings. Not the female sex of man; but a charming creature, caught in a net, to be caged for the gratification of man's curiosity; to sip from her own peculiar cup; nibble her own peculiar cake; and, like a bird of note, be admired more or less according to the number of airs she might learn to sing: while the ruder sex are to be treated as rational beings, and to be educated for purposes of utility. But suppose God had created mind male and female, does it follow that each sex should have a different sort of education? - What would you think of the father, who having both sons and daughters, should fall into the conceit that there was danger the former might dwindle clown into girls, and the latter grow up into boys; and, to prevent such a disaster, should feed his sons on bread and beef to make them robust, and his daughters on ice cream and candy to make them delicate? But no man is guilty of such folly as it regards physical education. Animal life is common to both sexes, and in each requires the same food to sustain it. Mind is as common to both sexes as life, and in each requires the same mental food to sustain its vigor and enhance its growth. Nature has pointed out the appropriate sphere of each sex too distinctly to be mistaken, and all the distinguishing characteristics which she ever intended, would exist as completely, and more so, without the intermeddling of human theory. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.