The Importance of Women's Education

She wanted an education for women that took them seriously as capable of rational thought. She felt that a rounded education couldn't just be the rational education, you don't just do maths and geometry. A sentimental education was a kind of disaster, but she didn't just say that's what women need and deserve - she said everybody needs and deserves it too. Some of the bits of her book that stand out as having a kind of raw power are her descriptions of what goes on in the male public schools. The grand old schools, Eton's, where men are taught by men or boys are teaching by men. It's not an education. It's an education in the ways of corruption.