What Charlotte Perkins Gilman thinks about education

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American writer and feminist theorist (1860 to 1935); author of Women and Economics.

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2 dated positions, c. 1898, in their own words. Our reading of what Charlotte Perkins Gilman has said — not written or endorsed by them.

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1. c. 1898

   Our readingWomen should be trained for motherhood rather than girls for catching a husband

   Their wordsMotherhood is the work of grown women, not of half-children; and, when we honestly care as much for motherhood as we pretend, we shall train the woman for her duty, not the girl for her guileless manœuvres to secure a husband.

   ↗Women and Economics (1898)gutenberg.org All 20 from this book

3. c. 1898

   Our readingThe private home and the dependent mother are no longer sufficient for training children

   Their wordsIt is in the training of children for this stage of human life that the private home has ceased to be sufficient, or the isolated, primitive, dependent woman capable.

   ↗Women and Economics (1898)gutenberg.org All 20 from this book