Knowledge and belief:
     This short passage scribbled into Dante Gabriel Rosetti’s notebook reads, “there are certain passionate phases of the soul when to know a thing true, & to believe it are found to be 2 separate things.” Rosetti here outlines not only the importance of attaining knowledge, but also of believing it. Education and religion are often segregated, but Rosetti argues that there must be a certain element of faith in knowledge, as well as knowledge with faith. You may have both independently, but neither will be complete without the other.

Women and the Politics of Schooling in Victorian and Edwardian England
     In this piece, Deborah Gorham demonstrates the variety of opinion and approach to the question of women’s education by citing two politically involved women, Helen Taylor and Rosamond Davenport Hill, who take different but equally valuable stances on the issue. Hill, a “model of feminine propriety” used her unassuming charm to make a quiet impact for women, while Taylor chose a more aggressive and outspoken approach. As Gorham illustrates, there were many women with many varying approaches to gaining women’s rights and education, each as valuable as the last in the search for female equality.

The New Education Illustrated
    This image by Frances Benjamin Johnson comes from a pamphlet not only supporting women’s education, but also offering it. This particular edition offers lessons in arithmetic accompanied by “photographs from life.” The image here depicts a young girl reading and learning, alongside a young woman who has graduated with a diploma. The significance of these images placed side by side is that education for women is not to be viewed as a petty pass-time or for the idle and privileged child in the search for female "accomplishments", but is to be viewed as a long-term commitment that will end in a scholarly woman of greater intelligence and worth to society. The image is pointedly void of men, placing more emphasis on the individuality of women, and implies that it is education for women, by women. This image is a strong advocate for women’s rights and education in that it not only conveys a message, but takes action also.