il and educational rights for women; this was a plea to give equality of opportunity to women. The education she promoted was a mixture of information and rational skills3. She stressed the importance of educating both sexes together, something that was nearly impossible for that era:
" My observation on national education are obviously hits; but I principally wish to enforce the necessity of educating the sexes together, to perfect both..." 4(Wollstonecraft 293)
She thought that men and women should be educated to a great degree by the opinions and manners of the society in which they live. Men and women were educated by their mother so the concession made in favour of education was not a privilege afforded to women but a way of control. Education was not intended to prepare women for professional and public life but it was meant to g
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