An idea from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

The mixing has limits. After age 9, children headed for trades go to separate schools, and those girls spend their afternoons sewing and making dresses. Only richer or abler children keep studying languages and science side by side.

From A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft

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