Modern education; or, An attempt to explain the chief causes and effects of our errours and deficiencies in that particular [electronic resource] : With practical proposals for a reformation. In the course of which the female right to literature is asserted; the supercilious airs of vain pedants exposed; their wise objections exploded; and the trite witticisms, usual on this question, fairly stated and confuted: clearly demonstrating, that the weakness and depravity imputed to the fair sex, is wholly owing to our utter neglect of their minds; and that the proper cultivation of them is the first and grand principles of all human excellence, as well as of all our social and domestic felicity.