In Rich's essay "What Does a Women Need to Know?" she argues that women have been demoralized throughout time. Rich says "when we think of what an independent women's college might be: a college dedicated both to teaching women what women need to know and, by the same token, to changing the landscape of knowledge itself." (Rich 45) This means that she believes that women should be taught the skills that they wi

The David Thomas essay "The Mind of Man" is about how boys are shot down at an early age. In a writing from the Independent on Sunday Toney Mooney says "Women teachers find boys too noisy, too aggressive, too boisterous. Unconsciously or not, they consistently reinforce and reward more 'feminine' behavior. If all this is true it is understandable that boys should not be as advanced as girls in the hands of woman junior school teachers. There is a direct relationship between a child's academic achievement and a favorable response from the teacher." (Thomas 339) To prove this fact there was an experiment done with seventy-two boys and sixty girls at kindergarten. They were taught to read on a self-teaching machine and then they were tested. The boys did better than the girls. Then they resumed normal classroom instruction by women teachers. The children were tested again and this time the boys' scores were lower than the girls. It is not a prejudice that women or men have against the children, it is a understanding of what the child is going through because the teacher has been in that position at one time i

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