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"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world”
– Nelson Mandela

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Q The Anti-slave trade movement used this image on leaflets, petitions and on a cameo Download cameo made by Josiah Wedgwood. This image became the logo of the anti-slavery movement. Question What do you think of Wollstonecraft's idea that education is the key to the liberation of women from the bondage of stereotype and expectations about their purpose and usefulness that women themselves have willingly accepted? How will education change that? This topic was locked Dec 10 at 11:59pm.

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Wollstonecraft sees education as the key to promote social stability and equality. In A Vindication of the Rights of Women, she finds numerous flaws with the education system given that it is more concerned with making women “alluring mistresses than affectionate wives and rational mothers". In order to prove that women are as rational as men, she calls for the education system to be one that allows women to tap into their potential and “aim at strength of mind and body”.