Education of Women
Nineteenth Century thinker William Hazlitt stated in his uninformed argument that a classical education is useless for women because they don’t care about the workings of global politics. He states that, “Women in general have no ideas, except personal ones. ... ” Many men of the Romantic period would surely agree that women preferred popular culture to classical teachings and preferred, “Signor Tramezzani to Aeneas”, and Hazlitt’s sexist ideas didn’t fall on deaf ears. However the past one hundred and eighty years and our knowledge of history have proven these conclusions false and outdated even for the time in which they were written, indeed women can have just as much of an impact as men on world events.