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Emma Willard started school at 15, and was teaching by age 17.

Started an all girls-higher education boarding school in her home.

Wrote the memoir: A Plan for Improving Female Education, a widely admired and influential proposal intended to win public support for girls schools.

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Details of her Work that made her an Interesting Figure:

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Details of her Work that made her an Interesting Figure:

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I found interesting that she learned so quickly, only attending school for 2 years and already teaching by then.

The only textbooks they taught at her school were the ones that SHE wrote.

Became wealthy and successful, both from the profits of her school and from the best-selling textbooks that SHE wrote.

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Willard's Criticism of American Society:

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Willard's Criticism of American Society:

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Along with her father, she felt that women deserved a higher education than what they got.

Unimpressed with what they were teaching at the school she was the principle of.

Willard believed that women could master topics like mathematics and philosophy rather than just subjects taught at their current schools.

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Gave hundreds of girls the education they deserved.

Started another boarding/day school, the Troy Female Seminary.

School later named after her and is still teaching girls to this day, The Emma Willard School

It was the first U.S. institution of serious learning for young women.

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Malala Yousafzai: she fights for girls education.

Went to school as a teen as well, even when she wasn't supposed to.

Founder of Malala Fund, advocates for international, and national system changes that give girls access to a high quality education. (Just like Emma!)

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Created the amazing Emma Willard school (now a college)

Basically started the chain for all the schools that began teaching higher education to young women.