What Do We Owe Our Fellow Human Beings?: Answered by Mary Wollstonecraft and Virginia Woolf
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Sargent, Ava
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2023-04-28
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Education is a key feature of a just and equitable society. Cultivating a robust and successful education system requires knowing how to best support students from all backgrounds. Yet, that does not always happen. Mary Wollstonecraft and Virginia Woolf provide insight into how one can best support students from all walks of life, while also showcasing the effects that lack of education can have on students. In The Vindication of the Right of Women, Mary Wollstonecraft states the struggles women experienced during the 1700s. Through her recollection of women's inequality, Wollstonecraft sets up her ideas on what she thinks will be most beneficial for students within education so they have the opportunities to gain knowledge in ways that she and other women were not allowed to. Woolf compliments the ideas of Wollstonecraft as she too experienced inequality due to her being a woman in the early twentieth century. In her work, A Room of One’s Own, Woolf introduces the importance of having one’s own space to devote to their passions, as well as having the opportunity to explore new interests. Through exploration and dedicated time to her creative work, Woolf was able to gain knowledge and feel like a productive member of society. Both Wollstonecraft and Woolf desire to reveal ways in which one can support and provide for students in education because they have experienced the shortcomings of society. Analyzing their desire to support the education of women in their particular contexts offers a way to consider how to create an education system that supports all students.