3. This study calls attention to the need of making the education of women serious instead of ornamental. Plato based his recommendation of the equal education of men and women on equality of civil functions. In modern thought it is the conception of equal rights and of equal abilities that tends to prescribe the same course of intellectual training for both sexes.
4. The educational work of the two Englishwomen, Miss Edgeworth and Miss Hamilton, can be studied with great profit. The first excels in practical wisdom, and the second in philosophic insight.
5. The Progressive Education of Madame Necker is a classic which fairly ranks with the Émile of Rousseau, and the Education of Herbert Spencer.]
FOOTNOTES:
[237] Gréard, Mémoire sur l’enseignement secondaire des filles, p. 78.
[238] French translation by Pictet, 1801.
[239] French translation by Chéron, 2 vols., Paris, 1804.
[240] Stewart, Elements, p. 11.
[241] Letters, Vol. I. p. 11.
[242] See the two volumes published in 1824 by Barrière, on the Éducation, par Madame Campan, followed by the Conseils aux jeunes filles.