Word: basua
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Fraser emphasizes with this and other examples that education was a significant influence on women's conditions. After the reign of Elizabeth and the collapse of the convent schools during the Reformation, women's education suffered serious reversals. Basua Makin, a female educator, wrote in 1673 that women ought to be taught Greek and Latin to make them "less idle" and better able to "understand Christ." But for all her progressive reform, she did not advocate a classical education for the majority of women...
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