7 Theeses on Educating Your Daughters, August 28, 2024. Statement of the issue, in the burgeoning reaction to egalitarian feminism, a reactionary

subculture started to take shape in the conservative evangelical world, one that is willing

to disparage the idea of providing daughters

with a rigorous education, particularly at the college level. Below I pose seven theses that indicate

why I believe this is a really bad idea.

It is important to state, however, that I'm talking about actual education and not what passes

for it in these are dissolute and undisciplined times.

Number one, FEMNA Adderons. This view that disparages education for girls

is built on a fatal compromise regarding the purpose of education. Categizing it is a pragmatic

Votec venture. This is the disease that has almost totally

corrupted the world of higher education today. The thought is that college is

there to prepare you for quote unquote a job and because believing Christians

know that a woman's focus and priority is supposed to be domestic

and home-centered, the idea is that college prep for that job is totally unnecessary.

The chief end of man is to glorify God and enjoy him forever as the catechism has it.

The chief end of man is not to get a cushy job with corporate right out of college with a really good

benefits package.

Now a lot of Christian reactionaries have reacted against

this mentality and have done well as far as that goes, but they have still retained the

idea that education is for a job and because they think that a woman's job

requires a little more than possession of a

womb and enough literacy to read the instructions on the side of a biscuit mixbox, they

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