Are Women People? - A Book of Rhymes for Suffrage Times by Alice Duer Miller
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4. Because it is essentially against the nature of a child to be
educated. 5. Because we can't see that it has done so much for grown-ups, and there is no reason for thinking it will make children perfect. 6. Because the time of children is already sufficiently occupied without going to school. 7. Because it would make dissension between parent and child. Imagine the home life of a parent who turned out to be more ignorant than his (or her) child? 8. Because we believe in the indirect education of the theatre, the baseball field and the moving picture. We believe that schools would in a great measure deprive us of this. 9. Because our parents went to school. They love us, they take care of us, they tell us what to do. We are content that they should be educated for us. But Then Who Cares for Figures An argument sometimes used against paying women as highly as men for the same work is that women are only temporarily in industry. |
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