Dorothea Dix Research Paper

She was born in Hampden Maine, April 4, 1802. She was the eldest of three children and her father was a religious fanatic and distributor of religious tracts who made Dorothea stitch and paste the tracts together, a chore she hated. When she was 12 she went to live with her grandmother in Boston, then she went to live with her aunt in Worcester, Massachusetts. She came back and started teaching at age 14. In 1819 she went back to boston and funded the dix mansion, a school for girls, along with a charity for poor girls so they could go to school for free and they got just as much education than the richer girls did, she believed that no one should have more education than one another. After she was done teaching she started writing textbooks, …show more content…
She was one of only 3 teenagers to become a teacher at age 14. She was one of the smartest teenagers in the united states, it was really hard for her to become a teacher in that time, because all the male teachers talked her down as she was going through college because none of the male teachers thought she could do it, but no one saw this next part she got two degrees in the 6 years of college she went through. She was so determined that she lobbied at a women's prison for 40 years just to prove a point. She opened up a place just to teach girls the same knowledge that the boys were learning, and she found this hunk of junk building that was all rundown and old and turned it into a place to teach the mentally ill people in that time true there was not very many of them but if she could make a difference than other people can too, and that’s what I think she was trying to get to through the men's head, whatever men can do girls can do it to. And one day there was this man that came into the school for mentally ill and said that he wanted to say thank you for trying to make a difference in this world no matter if it doesn’t work at least someone