School Authority, Parents' Rights: Rita Koganzon on Early Modern Education
New Books in Education
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The Importance of the Convent School
Rousseau doesn't really have any kind. of modernity or what do you call bourgeois society as lots of things start to replace the family because the family falls apart in it. And so he sees the convent school as a problem because it corrupts girls' morals, right? He sees everything as undermining the family's society, high society, fashion, all of that undermines the familyBecause women don't want to sacrifice themselves to the family. They want to be part of society. Because they're not willing to sort of limit themselves, to impose these limitations voluntarily on themselves,. and then men like run off and, you know, sleep around.
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