“I think I should know how to educate a boy, but not a girl; I should be in danger of making her too learned.” ThinkingKnowsShouldGirlEducationBoysKnow HowDangerEducate Author:Reinhold Niebuhr
“If I had the choice of educating a boy or a girl, I would educate the girl. If you educate a boy, you educate one, but if you educate a girl, you educate a generation.” IfsChoicesGirlBoysGenerationsEducate Author:Brigham Young
“The aim of education is to fit children for the position in life which they are hereafter to occupy. Boys are to be sent out intothe world to buffet with its temptations, to mingle with bad and good, to govern and direct.... girls are to dwell in quiet homes, amongst a few friends; to exercise a noiseless influence, to be submissive and retiring. There is no connection between the bustling mill-wheel life of a large school and that for which they are supposed to be preparing.... to educate girls in crowds is to educate them wrongly.” WorldChildrenHomeSchoolGirlBoysInfluencePositionFitExerciseQuietDirectConnectionsAimCrowdsTemptationSupposed To BeWheelsRetiringEducatePreparingHereafterMillsBuffetsSubmissiveFew FriendsAim Of Education Author:Elizabeth Missing Sewell
“We teach boys to be such men as we are. We do not teach them to aspire to be all they can. We do not give them a training as if webelieved in their noble nature. We scarce educate their bodies. We do not train the eye and the hand. We exercise their understandings to the apprehension and comparison of some facts, to a skill in numbers, in words; we aim to make accountants, attorneys, engineers; but not to make able, earnest, great- hearted men.” IfsMenGivingFactsBodyHandsEyeAbleUnderstandingNumbersEducationBoysTeachExerciseSkillsTrainingAimTrainNobleComparisonEducateEngineersAspireEarnestHeartedAttorneyScarceApprehensionAccountants Book:Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)
“My particular interest area is working in issues of emotional literacy. What I see of the way that we educate boys and more than that, the way we socialize boys within their families and then in schools to me is tantamount to just removing any element of emotional intelligence from them.” WaySchoolInterestBoysIssuesEmotionalParticularElementsAreasEducateEmotional IntelligenceLiteracyEmotional Literacy Author:John Amaechi