Ms. Johnson had to think outside of the box in order to connect with her students better. Ms. Johnson did a little research on the background of her students. She realized that she had to come and live in the same neighborhood as with her students for her to know what the reality they are experiencing is. If she herself will still think that there is still a choice or a slightest hope for them. Ms. Johnson realized that she had to break the standardized curriculum of the school.
Katherine battles to teach a groups of girls and encourage them to be independent and think for themselves. She tries to overcome this challenge in a society that does not value women’s independence and treats them as second class citizens; only fit to look after and serve men. Katherine’s new and strong views challenge the school traditions and bring her to the attention of the school board who instruct her only to teach the syllabus and give no other support or feedback. This can be seen as a metaphor for the treatment of women in the time where women were expected to only do as they were told. The society in this text had low expectations for women.
In the process, she endangered her life as she was threatened by the Taliban. Being the daughter of a school owner meant that she had the moral support of her parents as she persevered as an education activist and a feminist, but on the 9th of October, 2012 she was shot by a Talib. (1) Education is a privilege most of us are blessed with but some are willing to pay the ultimate price for. She was born and raised in a male dominant society, a community where a girl child was considered to be a burden to the family and was only useful to bear children or to do household chores. (2) She realized that ensuring education along with women’s rights were the only solutions to the dilemma she experienced in her society.
They do not have the right to vote, make their own decisions, and they definitely cannot voice their individual opinions in society. Even the father of Pakistani girls believes that their daughters are nothing more than a future “breeding tool. The role of these young girls once married is to produce as many males as their body will allow. That way, the women in Pakistan grow up with the mentality that they are just the backstage crew in the production of life. Sadly, it seems that the women in Pakistan honestly believe that they are below the men in their country because they continue to allow this behavior to continue, without revolutionizing like the women in many other countries, including the US, once did.
The parents should involve in their children’s lives to an extent. They will never learn how to survive in the world by their own if they always have their parents do everything for them. Children learn best when they are allow exploring by their own. It is the parents’ duty to be there next to them, support, and encourages them to do what they desire. My aunt is a very good example of the helicopter parents.
Nevertheless, she refused and she wanted to work for herself and enrich her mind. Therefore, she kept going to school, despite his beatings, ragings and threats. Nevertheless, one day, her husband and his brothers carefully gathered up battery acid, pinned her down and poured it into her face. She ended up in the Acid Survivors' Foundation in Dhaka, Bangladesh. In Bangladesh, acid attacks on "uppity" women are an epidemic, peaking in 2002 with 500 women having their faces burned off.
And mostly, the parents choose school and playing a classic instrument to be the first priorities. Her methods are very strict and hard – not funny and pedagogical like the most do it in the Western world. Amy Chua means that Western parents often are too soft with their children. If the kids want to give up at something, they respect that. She would keep pushing her children, and keep motivating them so they can achieve their goal, even if the kids doesn’t want do.
Katherine Watson, the teacher, challenges the girls by portraying liberal ideas to the students. Their choices in life enables Watson to teach about the freedom and choice. Ms. Watson in The Mona Lisa Smile, shows how women’s lives were controlled by social structures, and examines their attitudes as a reflection of society, which is dominated my male figures. In this case Ms. Watson tries to empower the school culture and social structure. James banks defines it as a “process of restructuring the culture and the organization of a school to bring about education equality and empowerment” (Banks, 40-41).
Wollstonecraft states that education for women "will slowly sharpen the senses, form the temper, regulate the passions as they begin to ferment, and set the understanding to work before the body arrives at maturity; so that the man may only have to proceed, not to begin, the important task of learning to think and reason." Education is most important for women because it will help them obtain habits of morality that will cause the individual to be independent. Wollstonecraft views education as a system that needs to be improved nationally for both boys and girls. Her plan to reform education states that both boys and girls will attend the same school until age 9 where they will all dress the same, be treated the same and participate in the same field of study.
Parents in India don't let their daughters get an education because they provide free labor at home for their families. Also won't learn to become a good housewife. It is common that girls in India are married of to have kids and take care of the house. So parents think staying home and teaching their daughters to be a good housewife is a better option. Once girls are married the husband is in charge.