I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.
Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.
The message of women's liberation is that women can love each other and ourselves against our degrading education.
I by no means intend to simplify the challenges women face in any culture. Women are marginalized in all cultures in my opinion, some in more extreme ways than others.
Learning, while at school, that the charge for the education of girls was the same as that for boys, and that, when they became teachers, women received only half as much as men for their services, the injustice of this distinction was so apparent.
I believe it is in the world's interest to develop environments that fully engage women and leverage their natural talents.
As Buddhism moved to the West, one of the big characteristics was the strong place of women. That didn't exist in the countries of origin. It's just a sign of our culture.
If we create a generation of men who aren't getting an education, that's bad for women.
I'm not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough or that they understand the cruelty of which men are capable and the delight that many men will take in seeing you choose to chain yourself - then they get to say 'See, you did it yourself.'
No education can be of true advantage to young women but that which trains them up in humble industry, in great plainness of living, in exact modesty of dress.