Question

Read these passages.

Once it is proved that men and women are and ought to be unlike in constitution and in temperament, it follows that their education must be different.

—Jean-Jacques Rousseau

If children are to be educated to understand the true principle of patriotism, their mother must be a patriot.

—Mary Wollstonecraft

What were the views of Rousseau and Wollstonecraft on education?

Rousseau and Wollstonecraft believed that women should get a better education than men
Wollstonecraft believed women should get the same education as men, but Rousseau disagreed.
Rousseau believed women should get the same education as men, but Wollstonecraft disagreed.
Wollstonecraft and Rousseau believed men should get a better education than women.

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Wollstonecraft believed women should get the same education as men, but Rousseau disagreed.

Rousseau argued men and women are naturally different and therefore should receive different educations; Wollstonecraft argued women need equal education so they can be informed citizens and properly educate their children.