Introduction
Sappho as an ancient Greek thinker and a great poet is credited with a number of her philosophical and educational works. She is one of the prominent educational revolutionaries. Sappho’s educational ideologies revolved around cultivating the student while at the same time serving as a mentor for young women so as to improve their capabilities as wives and Greeks (EM, 2011). Mary Wollstonecraft, although she is famously known as a political thinker, she has also greatly contributed to the educational theory and practice. Her book “A Vindication of the rights of Woman” is well known for its political and educational treatise and above all a celebration of the rationality of women. Wollstonecraft ideology was that a woman is supposed …show more content…
Sappho believed that a student should be developed equally in all aspects of life. Therefore, she developed virtues and social grace for her students; she was a sex educator and a physical education instructor. She also cared about her student’s intellectual development and therefore engaged her students in reading and writing poems. She was branded a reading teacher. Sappho was also a dancing teacher which contributed to the student’s physical development. She also developed the student’s spiritually by teaching them songs and engaging them in singing for the …show more content…
She was a participant in and observer of a significant range of social and educational changes. She was involved in the Enlightenment thought that regarded institutions as out-dated and one that needs to review religious beliefs changes, educational theory, and domestic structure (Burke, 2004). In the 18th and 19th century women were separated from the ideology of lifeblood of society and were more of observers than participators. This made Wollstonecraft start battling against women being governed and contained by the society they were not part of. She advocated for women equality on women and men legal rights/status and wanted women to have power over themselves without subordinating to men. Some of her educational philosophies
Sappho as an ancient Greek thinker and a great poet is credited with a number of her philosophical and educational works. She is one of the prominent educational revolutionaries. Sappho’s educational ideologies revolved around cultivating the student while at the same time serving as a mentor for young women so as to improve their capabilities as wives and Greeks (EM, 2011). Mary Wollstonecraft, although she is famously known as a political thinker, she has also greatly contributed to the educational theory and practice. Her book “A Vindication of the rights of Woman” is well known for its political and educational treatise and above all a celebration of the rationality of women. Wollstonecraft ideology was that a woman is supposed …show more content…
Sappho believed that a student should be developed equally in all aspects of life. Therefore, she developed virtues and social grace for her students; she was a sex educator and a physical education instructor. She also cared about her student’s intellectual development and therefore engaged her students in reading and writing poems. She was branded a reading teacher. Sappho was also a dancing teacher which contributed to the student’s physical development. She also developed the student’s spiritually by teaching them songs and engaging them in singing for the …show more content…
She was a participant in and observer of a significant range of social and educational changes. She was involved in the Enlightenment thought that regarded institutions as out-dated and one that needs to review religious beliefs changes, educational theory, and domestic structure (Burke, 2004). In the 18th and 19th century women were separated from the ideology of lifeblood of society and were more of observers than participators. This made Wollstonecraft start battling against women being governed and contained by the society they were not part of. She advocated for women equality on women and men legal rights/status and wanted women to have power over themselves without subordinating to men. Some of her educational philosophies