Wollstonecraft

Question 1

What do human beings have that alone places us above the brutes?

Answer 1

rationality is what makes us human. If women are irrational then they are not human.

Question 2

2. What is the problem with anyone having unchecked power?

Answer 2

But one power should not be thrown down to exalt another—for all power intoxicates weak man; and its abuse proves, that the more equality there is established among men, the more virtue and happiness will reign in society.

Question 3

What are little girls taught will obtain for them the protection of men?

Answer 3

please the men

Question 4

2. What is the most perfect education for Wollstonecraft?

Answer 4

It is to teach them to be well rounded like the men. help them to become autonomous.

Question 5

3. What comparison does Wollstonecraft draw between the military and the education of women?

Answer 5

A standing army, for instance, is incompatible with freedom; because subordination and rigour are the very sinews of military discipline; and despotism is necessary to give vigour to enterprizes that one will directs. A spirit inspired by romantic notions of honour, a kind of morality founded on the fashion of the age, can only be felt by a few officers, whilst the main body must be moved by command, like the waves of the sea; for the strong wind of authority pushes the crowd of subalterns forward, they scarcely know or care why, with headlong fury. 23
Besides, nothing can be so prejudicial to the morals of the inhabitants of country towns as the occasional residence of a set of idle superficial young men, whose only occupation is gallantry, and whose polished manners render vice more dangerous, by concealing its deformity under gay ornamental drapery. An air of fashion, which is but a badge of slavery, and proves that the soul has not a strong individual character, awes simple country people into an imitation of the vices, when they cannot catch the slippery graces, of politeness. Every corps is a chain of despots, who, submitting and tyrannizing without exercising their reason, become dead weights of vice and folly on the community. A man of rank or fortune, sure of rising by interest, has nothing to do but to pursue some extravagant freak; whilst the needy gentleman, who is to rise, as the phrase turns, by his merit, becomes a servile parasite or vile pander. 24
Sailors, the naval gentlemen, come under the same description, only their vices assume a different and a grosser cast. They are more positively indolent, when not discharging the ceremonials of their station; whilst the insignificant fluttering of soldiers may be termed active idleness. More confined to the society of men, the former acquire a fondness for humour and mischievous tricks; whilst the latter, mixing frequently with well-bred women, catch a sentimental cant.—But mind is equally out of the question, whether they indulge the horse-laugh, or polite simper.

Question 6

4. What is the problem with how Rousseau believes women should be educated?

Answer 6

he believe they need to be taught to support her husband

Question 7

5. What is the problem of an education that is geared solely toward pleasing a husband?

Answer 7

this is making girls not well rounded and unproductive.
It focuses them on physical beauty which is short term, and when your beauty is gone. Then you are left with nothing.
Plus what if they don’t get married, or their husband dies?
You train women, and you don’t help them to become an adult and they stay children. .
Women are kept in the present and thinking about here and now. With no time to be concerned with goals and sprititual life.