Emma Willard by Reece Knudson https://padlet.com/rknudson19/kgnys0404m36 Made with charm en-us 2017-10-25 18:58:40 UTC 2023-06-04 06:23:24 UTC hello@padlet.com Success in Promoting Reform: rknudson19 https://padlet.com/rknudson19/kgnys0404m36/wish/202756038
  • 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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  •  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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  • 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. 
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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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  • 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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  • 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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