My teaching here this year lies altogther in the field of political economy, and in my own special field of public law: and I already feel that teaching such topics to women threatens to relax not a little my mental muscle- to exalt the function of commonplace rudiments in my treatment. Before I teach elsewhere I should like to mix with the rough practical things in which I was formerly at home - to recover the proper atmosphere of my studies.It appears Woodrow Wilson was not only a racist but.. a sexist. Should the progressive income tax and Federal Reserve system be cancelled in respect to women in America?
Sunday, December 13, 2020
Flashback: Progressive Icon Woodrow Wilson Describes His Hatred For Teaching Women at Bryn Mawr
Mark Nemec's published doctoral dissertation on American higher education (page 79) gives another reason to question the legacy of Woodrow Wilson. Flashback November 7, 1887 to progressive icon and future President Woodrow Wilson. In a letter to University of Michigan Presient James B. Angell , Wilson describes his hatred for teaching women at Bryn Mawr college:
