Second Great Awakening
Emma's Female Education Plan
Emma Willard was a big part in this. This great awakening started to pay attention to schooling. New/better schools were popping up everywhere.Woman education was finally being recognized as something that was normal
FUN FACT
Woman education was finally being noticed and respected because of Emma Willard and her Woman Seminary in Troy, New York. She was a big part in education and she allowed woman to be educated.
Emma Willard wrote a long plan that discussed how the government could improve female education. It was addressed to the public but was particularly for the members of the legislator of New York. She talked about how female education is necessary and it has to be respected.
When Emma Willard got married in 1809 her husband was 50 years old, while she was just 22 years old!
Cites
Emma Willard. (2015). The Biography.com website. Retrieved 06:07, Mar 12, 2015, from
http://www.biography.com/people/emma-willard-9531676.
"Another error is that it has been made the first object in educating our sex, to prepare then to please the other. But reason and religion teach, that we too are primary existences; that it is for us to move, in the orbit of our duty, around the Holy Center of perfection, the companions, not the satellites of men; else, instead of shedding around us in their proper course, we must accompany them in their wildest deviations."
~Emma Willard in her Plan for Improving female education
This is my favorite exert or paragraph from her plan because it tells us that the first thing woman are educated in is being perfect and please our husbands, which is terrible. She states that we are supposed to be perfection and woman's main duty or purpose in this world is to please our husbands, be perfection, clean, and make babies.
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Women's Right's Movement: Emma Willard
by Stephanie Chalef on 4 March 2013
https://prezi.com/ln8u838dituy/womens-rights-movement-emma-willard/
Contribution to the woman's rights Movement
- Opened a serious learning school for woman
- created a long plan for the legislature to improve woman education
- She gave many girls a serious education when it wasn't given to them
Her Beliefs
Emma Willard
Emma Willard was for woman's rights and had a part in the movement. She believed that all woman should have a good and serious education. She believed that every woman could have an education and have a good carer.
FUN FACT
Her school (later names the Emma Willard School) still lives today as a all girls boarding school.
Willard was also a poet.
"Rocked in the cradle of the deep" was one known pieces by her.
Early Life
Emma Willard was born on February 23, 1787 in Berlin, Connecticut. She was encouraged to read and write by her farmer father.
From 1804 to 1806 attended an academy in Berlin, Connecticut. Her learning was so rapid she taught at her school after 2 years of learning.
Adult Life
Emma Willard was a teacher. In 1807 went to Middlebury Vermont to head a female academy. She later married a doctor named John Willard. In 1814 she opened her own school. It was called the Middlebury Female Seminary school. This was a school for young woman who were denied by colleges. It was the first serious learning school for woman.