Education

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This paper takes a look at the history of women's education. According to the paper, education has evolved substantially over the years, from an almost strictly oral tradition in the Greek era, to the Renaissance with an education based almost entirely on the works of both the Greek and Roman great thinkers. Lastly, the paper discusses the modern 1970s educational tradition where many of the traditional oral lessons were emphasized while a myriad of new ideas also came to be a part of the system.

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"Though precisely during the time that the transition from what some people call the dark ages or the medieval period, into the Renaissance, women were again largely excluded from official education, possibly as a result of the establishment of the ancient texts, in which women were not represented and rarely spoken of in favorable terms. Feminists, like Christine Pizan, who stressed the importance of female education and some of her male feminist contemporaries would mainly remain on the fringes as the classical form of education was reaffirmed as the standard."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Brown-Grant, Rosalind. Christine de Pizan and the Moral Defence of Women: Reading beyond Gender. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1999.
• Clark, Donald Lemen. John Milton at St. Paul's School: A Study of Ancient Rhetoric in English Renaissance Education. New York: Columbia University Press, 1948.
• Clinton, Catherine, and Christine Lunardini. The Columbia Guide to American Women in the Nineteenth Century. New York: Columbia University Press, 2000.
• Furniss, W. Todd, and Patricia Albjerg Graham, eds. Women in Higher Education. Washington, DC: American Council on Education, 1974.
• Greer, Colin. The Great School Legend: A Revisionist Interpretation of American Public Education. New York: Basic Books, 1972.

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