兴办女子教育,是近代社会进程中提出的新课题。中国作为文化悠久之古国,其灿烂文明虽已绵延了数千年,但占人口半数的广大女性却始终被摒弃于社会教育之外。自从古代圣哲们在阐释代表男女的“乾、坤”之道时,论证了“乾知大始;坤作成物;乾以易知,坤以简能;易则易知,简则易从”,“效法之谓坤”,“坤,顺也”之后,生儿育女便成了女性的主要职责,夫倡妇随便成了女性生活的准则。于是,“女子无才便是德”,就作为社会选择和评判女性的基本原则而延续并固定下来。既然要求妇女绝对的服从,必须窒息她们的智慧;既然要求广大妇女无才,自然没必要对她们进行教育。就连极力主张“有教无类”的孔夫子,也因为“惟女子与小人为难养”,而绝不肯向女性们传道授业。纵观中国的全部封建历史,社会各级学校从来都未向女性敞开过大门。当然,这种有意的禁锢与隔绝也会留 The establishment of women’s education is a new topic raised in the process of modern society. As an ancient country with a long history of culture, China has splendid civilization for thousands of years. However, the majority of women, who make up half of the population, have always been abandoned outside of social education. Since the ancient sages and philosophers were explaining the way of “doing and kun” for men and women, they demonstrated that “ , ”Follow the rules that Kun“, ”Kun, Shun also“ after the childbearing daughter has become the main responsibility of women, husbands and mothers casually became a guide to women’s lives. Thus, ”women are virtues without virtue“ continue and are fixed as the basic principle of social choice and judgments of women. Since the absolute obedience of women is required, their wisdom must be suffocated. Since the majority of women are required to be unprivileged, it is no longer necessary for them to be educated. Even Confucius, who strongly advocated ”teaching without class“, never refused to preach to women because ”women and young people are hard to support." Looking at all of China’s feudal history, schools at all levels of society have never opened the door to women. Of course, this deliberate imprisonment and isolation will stay