Genre:

Essay

Subjects:

Gender, Education, Mathematics, Natural History

    Criticises the 'present system of education' for 'seriously' denying girls exposure to Latin and Greek 'which would open a vast amount of innocent delight and instruction in the ample fields of natural history and philology' (12). Attacks the notion that 'the capacity of the boy for receiving instruction is greater than the capacity of his weaker companion' and, dealing with the 'sneer' that 'women [...] are ever weak in argument', urges that women 'study mathematics and read logic'. (13)