Thomas Jefferson's (he knew how to raise a daughter) outlined busy program for his 11-year-old daughter (quotes from The Spearhead):
The guy also demanded updates:
Can you believe that people have actually taken these documents and have actually accussed TJ of misogyny?!
More wisdom from TJ:
Upon browsing through the comments section of The Spearhead in its article "Stop Looking for a Wife: You Won't Find One," I came upon an excellent and insightful post by commenter sorin:
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With respect to the distribution of your time, the following is what I should approve:
From 8. to 10. o’clock practise music.
From 10. to 1. dance one day and draw another.
From 1. to 2. draw on the day you dance, and write a letter next day.
From 3. to 4. read French.
From 4. to 5. exercise yourself in music.
From 5. till bedtime, read English, write, &c
The guy also demanded updates:
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I expect you will write me by every post. Inform me what books you read, what tunes you learn, and inclose me your best copy of every lesson in drawing. Write also one letter a week either to your Aunt Eppes, your Aunt Skipworth, your Aunt Carr, or the little lady from whom I now enclose a letter. . . . Take care that you never spell a word wrong. Always before you write a word, consider how it is spelt, and, if you do not remember it, turn to a dictionary. It produces great praise to a lady to spell well…
Can you believe that people have actually taken these documents and have actually accussed TJ of misogyny?!
More wisdom from TJ:
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A lady who has been seen as a sloven or slut in the morning will never efface the impression she has made, with all dress and pageantry she can afterwards involve herself in…
I do not wish you to be gayly clothed at this time of your life, but that what you wear should be fine of its kind; but above all things, and all times let your clothes be clean, whole, and properly put on…Nothing is so disgusting to our sex as a want of cleanliness and delicacy in yours.
Upon browsing through the comments section of The Spearhead in its article "Stop Looking for a Wife: You Won't Find One," I came upon an excellent and insightful post by commenter sorin:
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When I read of accounts of women of olden days, I’m often struck by the well-rounded education many of them received; they could read, write, and speak with eloquence (and in other languages as well), studied history, literature, and the Bible, could play an instrument and dance, they knew the culinary arts and could keep house, raise children, entertain guests, and on top of that, had virtue and modesty. Of course, not all women did these things, but these traits were considered laudable. The way feminists talk, you’d think women did nothing but sweep floors and suffer to be raped by their brute of husband they were forced to marry.
For all their degrees, today’s women are dumb as bricks. They have rejected ‘weak’ feminine virtues in favor of masculine vices, imagining themselves to be empowered by them. Modern western woman considers herself liberated- but from what? Family, marriage, motherhood, chastity, beauty, modesty; those horror of horrors! There has never been a more miserable generation of women, yet it seems they would rather have their misery a hundred times over than trade it for their natural, submissive role as wives and mothers under a patriarchal system.
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