Passage Discussion

[ganbayou]

What is the difference between the two proposals?
It seems both proposals tried to give equal education for females and males, but later in the passage it says the first proposal failed because at age 8 females had to...leave?? If they had to leave it means it did not give equal education in the first place, isn't it?

In Q24 it says "available to all" and "nondiscriminatory"...what's the difference? It sounds it's saying the same thing.

[ManhattanPrepLSAT1]

The author is not suggesting that the two proposals for education reform around the time of the French Revolution amounted to equal opportunities for boys and girls to receive an education. Instead, the author is suggesting that even the "missed opportunities" (lines 6-7) that some people claim those reform attempts to have been, were not really equal opportunities for both boys and girls.

P1: The nature of 19th century educational opportunities for women is discussed.

P2: Two proposals for reforming the French educational system right after the French Revolution are presented.

P3: A connection between those proposals and the successful reform of the French education system a century later is discussed.

Main Point
The author does not have a central thesis in this passage. Instead the author is outlining a historical phenomenon.

Topic
Humanities