Reply #6: COLLEGE should broaden students [View All]

[Caria]

What bugs me is that the "journalist" seems to be using the optimism of a select few (all from elite background with a cushion of family money to fall back on?) to imply that educating women is wasteful.

The students quoted in the article are freshmen and sophomores. What will they think and where will they be when they are 22? 25? 30? My own life is not at all what I thought it would be when I was that age - it is much better, fuller, richer. But mine is also not a life I'd have chosen for myself when I was 18.

That said, I think it is wonderful that young women assume that they will have control over their own lives, that they will have a range of options from which to choose, and that they will have flexibility. I don't remember thinking that way when I was their age.

Furthermore, I agree with Shirley Tilghman, that stay-at-home-parents can have "a powerful impact on their communities."