It is the height of selfishness for men, who fully appreciate in their own case the great advantages of a good education, to deny these advantages to women . There is no valid argument by which the exclusion of the female sex form the privilege of education can be defended. It is argued that women have their domestic duties to perform and that if they were educated, they would bury themselves in their books and have little time for attending to the management of their households. Of course, it is possible for women, as it is for men, to neglect necessary work in order to spae more time for reading sensational novels. But women are no more liable to this temptation than men, and most women would be able to do their household work all the better foreign able to refresh their minds in the intervals of leisure with a little reading.
