The French Revolution itself impacted the ideas of Schiller and Wollstonecraft as it portrayed the importance for education in order to sustain a sense of freedom. In Schiller's “On the Aesthetic Education of Man,” he explains that freedom can only happen through learning from the past, and the key to that is the experience of beautiful art. In Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, she asserts women too had the right to develop their freedom and equality, and that education accounts for more differences than gender does alone. Schiller's concern is the author's conception of self and purposes of art, and the sufferings and shocks of the revolution inform his investigation into the role of art in humanity. Schiller says, “We…show more content… Schiller portrays the beautiful way of bringing upon change. Instead of using violence, making a difference without it is what is beautiful. If you wish to fight to retain freedom, do so without violence, or a minimal amount. Schiller uses this romantic idea to illustrate his disappointment with the way the French Revolution was carried out. Schiller compares the age in which he lived in, with another one of the past, which is the age of the Greeks; this is his idealism of the past, he says, “The reputation for culture and refinement, on which we otherwise rightly pride ourselves humanity in its merely natural state, can avail us nothing against the natural humanity of the Greeks” (Schiller 485). Schiller stands outside of his age, and looks at what is happening in his age with a cold eye, he is analyzing the successes and failures of his age. Schiller asserts that if your own age is hell, like he believed his own age was, then you must withdraw from it, because you will not find any beauty in the experiences of your age. Schiller states, “Humanity has lost its dignity; but Art has rescued it and preserved it in significant stone. Truth lives on in the illusion of Art, and it is from…show more content… Education is a right that all women will perish for, it is a doctrine of rights. Wollstonecraft believes that everyone should be philosophically rational when it comes to women being treated as equals to men. There is no reason why they should not be equals. Wollstonecraft says, “To do every thing in an orderly manner, is a most important precept, which women receive only a disorderly kind of education, seldom attend to with that degree of exactness that men, who from their infancy broke into method, observe” (Wollstonecraft 499). Rationality is important to Wollstonecraft; however, she asserts the question as to how women can be as rational as men if they do not have the same education as them? She asks for those rights, and provides the reasons. Wollstonecraft states that if you give women the same systematic education as men, then they will be the same as those men, she says, “In the present state of society, a little learning is required to support the character of a gentleman; and boys are obliged to submit to a few years of discipline” (Wollstonecraft 500). Wollstonecraft asserts that in her age, present society is prejudice. She embodies the principles of rejection, and does not reason the way men thinks she does. Wollstonecraft says that the men in armies are trained the way they treat the fair sex. She signifies that an army of women will rise eventually to fight for their
