Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.
I think schools, as they are now regulated, the hot-beds of vice and folly, and the knowledge of human nature supposedly attained there, merely cunning selfishness.
... in the education of women, the cultivation of the understanding is always subordinate to the acquirement of some corporeal accomplishment ...
The most perfect education ... is such an exercise of the understanding as is best calculated to strengthen the body and form the heart. Or, in other words, to enable the individual to attain such habits of virtue as will render it independent.
... the whole tenour of female education ... tends to render the best disposed romantic and inconstant; and the remainder vain and mean.