"I'm not a feminist"

Actually, in the 1800s many women did receive excellent educations from tutors, but others also attended private schools if their father's could afford it. There are innumerable female writers from the 19th century that can attest to this. I'm not saying that this means that women had equal opportunity when it came to education, though. Still, we also have to keep in mind that universities were fairly elitist until well into the 1900s, and that there were many women receiving a good education in the early 1900s that a man would not have the opportunity of receiving due to social status.

 

Well, uh, let's see... perhaps the fact that Hitler was supposedly bent on global domination, and that Hitler, although technically elected through a democratic system, was not really inclined to perpetuate any democratic system that may have existed in a nation that he conquered. Wheile the United States may not have been directly threatened, other "democratic" nations obviously were, and MEN primarily fought to restore countries like France to their former democratic state, or defend countries like Britain from being conquered by tyranny. I guess when you've devoted your whole life to working with breasts one's understanding of history can be somewhat limited, but that's no excuse for not understanding the importance of the sacrifice that so many men made for you during WWII.

 

Thank you Jiimaan!

Women were able to get an education in the 1800s. That's a fact. Thomas Jefferson's wife is an example of this. Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson was educated in both academic pursuits as well as business and from what I read was a very intelligent woman.

 

Are you saying that people who homeschool their kids and people who attend college through distance learning (like me) aren't adequately educated? If so, you don't know the facts.

 

If anything, done right, homeschooling and home "college" (I've done the distance learning thing too) are far better than actually going to a school or college, because you learn more and you are forced to figure things out on your own rather than being led every step of the way and leaning on your classmates for some of the answers and what not. I always learned more in "self taught" type classes than I ever did in "regular" ones, and I retained more knowledge than my "regular class" counterparts.