This chapter talked about the growing patterns of development in the educational system two hundred to three hundred years ago.  Women were able to rebel their social standings as schools began to develop in a legal and authoritative manner. They began to be the common figure in education.  The chapter mentions this, and how women are essentially better teachers than men.  My question is: Does biology show that women are essentially better educators? Or is that just the perception because of women’s social standings throughout history?

Pestalozzi’s teaching methods were very interesting.  In the chapter, it meantions that he was trying to psychologize the education of humanity, through “adapting methods of instruction to human development and the laws of the mind”.  Now if this is the case, does this not mean that these perceptions of teachers hundreds of years ago is somewhat irrelevant to today’s teachers?  We think, act, talk, socialize, etc. differently in today’s time so must we be educated differently?