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Emma Willard (1787-1870)

Having grown up in a big family, Emma was exposed to a well educatioin that wasn't bad at all. In her 20's she began teaching other girls and boys out of her father's house. When she married at age 22, she obtained the aquaintance of her husband's nephew who attended Middlebury College. After being denied enrollment into the school she started using her husband's nephew's books to study from and to teach her other subjects that she had not been allowed access to before. She learned that she could teach these subjects herself to other girls who had also been deprived of this education

Criticism: The old way of thinking was that the men were the superior sex and aut to have the better education. They were after all the ones that held office and ran the government. Society viewed women as the 'mothers'. It was uncalled for to have a women be the one bringing in the money to support the household. Society did not think in the way of women having equal education rights

Goals: Wanted to create a school for girls so that they could practice other kinds of education that they have not been exposed to. Like, reading,writing, grammer, arithmetic, algebra, trig, geometry, astronomy, philosophy, history, geography, map reading, chem. Along with the traditional drawing, dancing, painting, French, Italian, Spanish, and German. And also home economics and managment. She wanted an institute that was as seperated from the boys as the boy's institutes were sperated from the girls.

Methods to improve American life: She wanted to break the traditional view of women as only those who worked in the household. She knew that women were just as capable as men in the education ascept, and that they should be given the same opportunity. She wanted the whole community to respect women's right for this opportunity. She didn't want this to be a individual effort but one with support.

Successes: After being originally been rejected funding by Governor DeWitt Clinton of New York. The city of Troy raised money to buy the nessary school houses for the female seminary. opened the Troy Female Seminary School in Troy, NY (early 1820's) (was later named Emma Willard School)

Praticaility of Methods: approach the legislation with her proposition to open a girl's college to supply women and young girls with the education that they deserve to have

Ways the government could help: Fund the School that Emma wishes to establish

__From her Proposed Plan for Improving Female Education__ Acknowledge the women's right to have an education, and abolish the causes that prevent them from not come up with priniciples for the regulation of education Compose ways to which Women's education could be arranged to acknowlegde that the benefits of women education is important

Question for Prudence: Why should African Americans get a school of their own before our own girls get a chance to have their own school? Question for Susan B. Anthony: With the experience of you being denyed the chance for a better education due to your race, wouldn't you agree to the cause of a all girl's school where girls recieve the education they ought to be given?

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