QUESTION #3

POL S 302 MIDTERM

Question 3

Mary Wollstonecraft on education

• ·         Women’s education is rooted in manners and is superficial. Women were not educated but were trained to become respectful, mannered and beautiful wives.
• ·         Women should be given equal opportunities to education like men
• ·         Compared women to soldiers; both are trained to do little specific things. They are taught little virtue
• ·         Men and women are not different; the reason they are different is because men are given the right type of education that allows them to evolve but women are not.
• ·         Both men and women are improvable and therefore both should be given the same type of education that will improve them.
• ·         Individual selves activates individual reason. This is why women needs education. So that they can improve their reasoning.
• ·         Wollstonecraft suggests that women are have immortal souls that is worthy of being developed.

Schiller on education

• ·         Aesthetic education can produce an increased level of awareness to the world and can produce and increased intensity in determining the activity of intellect.
• ·         Talks about mechanical vs. fine art
• ·         Prefers the fine artist because it destroys but still knows the importance of the material
• ·         Politics has taken away man’s ability to become a fine artist. Instead of man shaping himself, the political body created laws that will benefit the state rather than the man himself.
• ·         The physical man has been created by the state. Schiller does not want politics to destroy individuality.
• ·         His utopia is one like the ancient Greek society, where men were not assigned specific tasks. Education should be well-rounded.
• ·         The artist cannot be a child of his time or he will lose his individuality.
• ·         An educated fine artist is good at playing with the senses.