Education has always been an important characteristic to obtain in life. In today's society, education is the deciding factor in many major situations; the most obvious is job opportunities. But how important was education throughout history, especially education for women? Females work was always thought of to be at the house, where they could cook, clean, and tend to the children. An educated female was thought of to be a threat to her husband. All the knowledge that a female needed to comprehend was related to her household jobs, nothing more. Obviously this mindset has been erased in today's society, but during the Renaissance this was the common way of life. Throughout this document-based question, I will discuss the extent to which early modern European society encouraged education for females. .
Between the early 1500s to the early 1700s, the prospective of females and education dramatically changed. Women were thought of as the housemaids, tending to their daily chores such as cleaning, cooking, and nursing the family. But even though many people believe this was the females duty, they were still capable of accomplishing just as much as their equal counterparts in life. From Group A Document 1, Castiglione made this very clear through the quote " I say that all women can understand all things men can understand and that the intellect of woman can penetrate wherever a man's can- From this quote, one can induce that Castiglione supports the equal rights between men and women. As long as women were able to stand up for themselves, they were able to get out of the furrow that they were buried in throughout history (Group A, Document 4). But women cannot stand up for themselves unless they know they should be equal. This mindset has to be embedded into the females" minds in order for them to strive and do better. Luckily, Roger Ascham made this characteristic apparent when he observed one of his student's characteristics.
