The curriculum of the girl's school should be vernacular, needle work and sanitation...teaching women amounted to loss of nationality... English education had [a] de-womanising impact on women by denying them a happy worldly life...hurt the sentiments of the Hindus...teaching Hindu women to read English would ruin their precious traditional virtues and would make them immoral and subordinate. (Bal Gangadhar Tilak)

The curriculum of the girl's school should be vernacular, needle work and sanitation...teaching women amounted to loss of nationality... English education had [a] de-womanising impact on women by denying them a happy worldly life...hurt the sentiments of the Hindus...teaching Hindu women to read English would ruin their precious traditional virtues and would make them immoral and subordinate.

Bal Gangadhar Tilak

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