Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 February 1901 — The Education of Women. [ARTICLE]

The Education of Women.

President Thwing of Western Reserve University discusses in the February Forum the venerable problem of whether a woman’s education should differ from a man’s. He thinks there should be a difference, but his view has nothing in common with the old theory that a woman was best kept in ignorance of book learning. His ideas form a striking contrast with those of Prior, whose advice to husbands concerning wives was: Be to her virtues very kind, Be to her faults a little blind, And clap your padlock on her mind.