The last chapters were so full of important thoughts that I had a hard time picking what to write about. Wollstonecraft was way before her time. She wrote some new and, at that time, outrageous ideas.
I really liked how Wollstonecraft mentioned a hypocritical idea of that time period. She talked about how husbands expected their wives to teach their children while the wife was not allowed to have an education as a child and adult. She also mentions “How can women be just or generous, when they are slaves to injustice?” (Wollstonecraft) This make logical sense. How can someone do or think a way if they did not learn how to do it or think that way?
Another idea Wollstonecraft had was the equivalent to a modern day public school. She believed that children who learned at home were easily susceptible to be spoiled. Once the children who learned at home went out into society would become stuck up. She also believed that children were also very susceptible to being spoiled if they went away to boarding school. Her observation was that when children went home for vacation from school their parents would spoil them and they would become like the child who learned at home. Wollstonecraft believed the best solution was to make a school where girls and boys learned together, dressed in uniforms, and traveled to school everyday. This idea would make “ the constitution of boys would not be ruined by the debaucheries, which now make men so selfish, or girls rendered weak and vain, by indolence, and frivolous pursuits.” (Wollstonecraft)
I believe most of what Wollstonecraft said. I have enjoyed reading The Vindication of the Rights of Woman, and looking around and seeing the impact and inspiration this book has had on our modern society.
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