Encouraging Women to be Learned and Wise
Encouraging Women to be Learned and Wise

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to show how women came to be integrated into the broad educational system. During the period, 1550-1700 women’s education improved greatly, but they were still barred from receiving a university education. Women were deemed to be the inferior branch of human race. The successful reign of Elizabeth I (1558- 1603), the powerful Anna of Denmark, demonstrated that women could flourish in politics. The humanist philosophers of the Renaissance consider that educated women should confine their learning to the private, domestic sphere. In Education of a Christian Woman, Jean Luis Vives wrote that it was not fit for a woman to rule a school. If she was good it was better to be at home and unknown to other folks.

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