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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.

— Lucretia Mott

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

The prevailing view was that girls were outside of school because of the resistance of families to their education. But when I visited a local village, what everyone told me - the chiefs, the parents, the children - was that girls weren't in school because it was the boys that had a better chance of getting paid work in the future.

— Ann Cotton

Everything has to do with education: If you educate the girls, you educate the family, the community, and society, in general.

— Alek Wek

At any rate, girls are differently situated. Having no need of deep scientific knowledge, their education is confined more to the ordinary things of the world, the study of the fine arts, and of the manners and dispositions of people.

— William John Wills

One can make a case that says that since 85% of children being brought up in single family homes are being brought up by women that about 85% of elementary school teachers should be males to balance out the feminization that the boys and girls receive.

— Warren Farrell

When I taught, all my best students were women.

— Zaha Hadid

School is very conformist, and one of the very first conforming that goes on in preschool and kindergarten is gender.

— Dan Savage

Educational equality doesn't guarantee equality on the labor market. Even the most developed countries are not gender-equal. There are still glass ceilings and 'leaky pipelines' that prevent women from getting ahead in the workplace.

— Michelle Bachelet

Most teachers are not trained in how boys and girls learn differently.

— Michael Gurian

For the longest time, you couldn't even say boys and girls were different. It was taboo in the educational world.

— Jon Scieszka

✗Opposing Perspectives

Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.

— Margaret Mead