Vicesimus Knox
Vicesimus Knox (8 December 1752 – 6 September 1821) was an English essayist, headmaster and Anglican priest.
Quotes
[edit]- That learning belongs not to the female character, and that the female mind is not capable of a degree of improvement equal to that of the other sex, are narrow and unphilosophical prejudices.
- Essays, Moral and Literary (1782), no. 142
- All sensible people agree in thinking that large seminaries of young ladies, though managed with all the vigilance and caution which human abilities can exert, are in danger of great corruption.
- Liberal Education (1780), § 27
- Can anything be more absurd than keeping women in a state of ignorance, and yet so vehemently to insist on their resisting temptation?
- Quoted in Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), ch. 7
