Board of Trustees, Due to Catharine Beecher’s upstanding work to elevate the status of women through emphasis on family roles she would provide a vital and unique voice to the United States University. Born in East Hampton, New York in 1800, she was the eldest daughter of eight, thus becoming the family’s household manager after her mother’s death in 1816. She took up a teaching job in Litchfield, Connecticut in 1818 which led her to open the Hartford Female Seminary in 1823. She combined core parts of algebra, chemistry, history, Latin, philosophy, and rhetoric with a strong emphasis on development of moral and religious character. Explained in her essay published in 1829, Suggestion Respecting Improvements in Education; Catharine believes the primary goal of education should be to provide a basis for the development of a student’s
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She successfully ran the Hartford Female Seminary until 1831, when she moved with her family to Cincinnati, Ohio. By the 1830s her focus shifted to giving women more responsibility and respect outside of the home. Teaching, she discovered, was the perfect profession for women because it gave them an independent and influential role in society, but still retaining a feminine role. In Cincinnati, she opened the Western Female Institute, designed to instruct women so they could instruct others. In her Essay on Education of Female Teachers published in 1835, she explained how she wanted it to serve as a model for a nationwide system of teacher colleges. While she strongly advocated for the expansion of educational opportunities for women, she believed men and women needed to be educated in their distinctive roles of society. Her most popular publication, Treatise on Domestic Economy for the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School provided information on cooking, child care, and health care because domestic concerns, are in her opinion, the greatest work. Through devotion to the welfare of others, women lay the basis
She successfully ran the Hartford Female Seminary until 1831, when she moved with her family to Cincinnati, Ohio. By the 1830s her focus shifted to giving women more responsibility and respect outside of the home. Teaching, she discovered, was the perfect profession for women because it gave them an independent and influential role in society, but still retaining a feminine role. In Cincinnati, she opened the Western Female Institute, designed to instruct women so they could instruct others. In her Essay on Education of Female Teachers published in 1835, she explained how she wanted it to serve as a model for a nationwide system of teacher colleges. While she strongly advocated for the expansion of educational opportunities for women, she believed men and women needed to be educated in their distinctive roles of society. Her most popular publication, Treatise on Domestic Economy for the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School provided information on cooking, child care, and health care because domestic concerns, are in her opinion, the greatest work. Through devotion to the welfare of others, women lay the basis