"The business of education in this case, is only to conduct the shooting tendrils to a proper pole; yet after laying precept upon precept, without allowing a child to acquire judgement itself, parents expect them to act in the same manner by this borrowed fallacious light, as if they had illuminated it themselves; and be, when they enter life, what their parents are at the close. They do not consider that the tree, and even the human body, does not strengthen its fibres till it has reached its full growth"
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
7 entries in ESTC (1792, 1793, 1794, 1796).<br>
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See <u>A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects. by Mary Wollstonecraft.</u> (London: Printed for J. Johnson, No 72, St. Paul's Church Yard, 1792). &lt;<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004903441.0001.000">Link to ECCO-TCP</a>&gt;<br>
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Reading Wollstonecraft, M. <u>A Vindication of the Rights of Woman</u>, Modern Library (New York: Random House, 2001). Also <u>The Vindications</u>, eds. D. L. Macdonald and Kathleen Scherf (Toronto: Broadview Press, 2001). <br>
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See also Mary Wollstonecraft, <u>A Vindication of the Rights of Woman with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects</u> (London: J. Johnson, 1792). &lt;<a href="http://oll.libertyfund.org/title/126">Link to OLL</a>&gt;