Bathsua Makin Quotes on Knowledge
Bathsua Makin was an English educator, philosopher, and the most learned woman of her age in early modern England, tutor to the daughters of Charles I and the author of the most ambitious early-modern English defense of the higher education of women. This page collects quotes attributed to Bathsua Makin on the topic of knowledge, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Bathsua Makin:
“The barbarous custom of denying women a liberal education is a custom, not a law of nature.”
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“Women have been kept ignorant, then blamed for their ignorance; the second is a worse offense than the first.”
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“Languages are the ladders by which the soul climbs to the heights of philosophy.”
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“He who refuses to teach his daughter cheats his son of an equal companion.”
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“What the gentlemen learn in the universities, gentlewomen may learn in better-ordered households.”
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“A Learned Woman is thought to be a Comet, that bodes Mischief, when ever it appears. To offer to the World the liberal Education of Women is to deface the Image of God in Man, it will make Women so high, and men so low, like Fire in the House-tops it will set the whole world in a Flame. These things and worse than these, are commonly talked of, and verily believed by many, who think themselves wise Men: to contradict these is a bold attempt.”
To all Ingenious and Vertuous Ladies, more especially to ... the Lady Mary, Eldest Daughter to ... the Duke of York", p. 3 -
“To all Ingenious and Vertuous Ladies, more especially to ... the Lady Mary, Eldest Daughter to ... the Duke of York", p. 3”
A Learned Woman is thought to be a Comet, that bodes Mischief, when ever it appears. To offer to the World the liberal Education of Women is to deface the Image of God in Man, it will make Women so high, and men so low, like Fire in the House-tops it will set the whole world in a Flame. These things and worse than these, are commonly talked of, and verily believed by many, who think themselves wis -
“Let not your Ladiships be offended that I do not (as some have wittily done) plead for Female Preeminence. To ask too much is the way to be denied all.”
To all Ingenious and Vertuous Ladies, ...", p. 4 -
“To all Ingenious and Vertuous Ladies, ...", p. 4”
Let not your Ladiships be offended that I do not (as some have wittily done) plead for Female Preeminence. To ask too much is the way to be denied all.