Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes About Education

Quotes about: Education

• Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Education, Men, Degrees

  Mary Wollstonecraft (1793). “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects”, p.19

• Only that education deserves emphatically to be termed cultivation of the mind which teaches young people how to begin to think.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Education, Thinking, People

  Mary Wollstonecraft (2015). “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman”, p.202, Booklassic

• I think schools, as they are now regulated, the hot-beds of vice and folly, and the knowledge of human nature supposedly attained there, merely cunning selfishness.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Education, School, Thinking

  Mary Wollstonecraft (2008). “A Vindication of the Rights of Women & a Vindication of the Rights of Men”, p.170, Cosimo, Inc.

• The most perfect education ... is such an exercise of the understanding as is best calculated to strengthen the body and form the heart. Or, in other words, to enable the individual to attain such habits of virtue as will render it independent.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Education, Independent, Heart

  Mary Wollstonecraft, Sylvana Tomaselli (1995). “Wollstonecraft: A Vindication of the Rights of Men and a Vindication of the Rights of Woman and Hints”, p.89, Cambridge University Press

• In the education of women, the cultivation of the understanding is always subordinate to the acquirement of some corporeal accomplishment.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Education, Accomplishment, Understanding

  Mary Wollstonecraft (2013). “Vindication of the Rights of Women”, p.20, Lulu.com

• ... the whole tenour of female education ... tends to render the best disposed romantic and inconstant; and the remainder vain and mean.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Romantic, Education, Mean

  Mary Wollstonecraft (1997). “The Vindications: The Rights of Men and The Rights of Woman”, p.194, Broadview Press

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