Defender of Women’s Learning
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
Your quest companion appears in the header, offers one of their ideas on your home page each day, and cheers you on in lessons. You can change companions at any time, and your progress stays the same.
A Mexican nun, poet and scholar who gathered a large library and defended women’s right to study in a famous letter to a bishop.
Key work: Reply to Sor Filotea (1691)
“If Aristotle had cooked, he would have written much more.”
Key ideas, in brief (in our words)
A mind does not ask permission to study.
Silence can be forced. Thought cannot.
Learning is how a person refuses a smaller life.
Read more: Wikipedia
On the climb
The Right to StudyThe Blame You BuiltStudy Where You Are
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