Women's role in chapter seven.

Chapter seven was a mess in my opinion. The book did say it was going to go full circle with the role women played in education. Before it went into detail about how women was not allowed to teach, it first discussed how unmarried women was the ideal teacher. On page 267 it discussed that even though it was a woman who donate the plot for one of the first public schools, girls still was not able to attend. I am surprised with the nonsense that went with choosing a teacher and the direction schools to go. School first purpose was to spread religious belief, and today the prayer is not even allowed spoken in schools. The chapter first introduces us to a male teacher and during that time, men where the only ones teaching because the were the only ones becoming educated. In the late 1680s most women could not even sign their names.