Let’s Talk About Women and Higher Education
Written by Eric Conn on X
First, the argument that women need higher education so they can raise godly sons actually goes back to the French Revolution period. Proto-feminists and revolutionaries sought to destroy Christian families, so they used this nefarious line often: “A woman needs to have a university education outside the home if she is to raise godly sons.”
This was a subtle maneuver. What they really wanted was to brainwash the girl whilst away from her Christian father’s authority. This is why Marxists and Bolsheviks targeted and infiltrated education. Women off at school are easy prey for leftists.
Second, Scripture is clear that young women should not leave their father’s protection/headship, which means his household, until she is passed on to the headship of the husband at the altar. There should not be a period of “single womanhood” wherein she lives outside the authority of a head.
Third, single women should not be encouraged to go get an advanced degree (you get a degree to get a job outside the home, obviously a man’s domain, biblically speaking). If her main vocation/calling is motherhood, it’s obvious you learn that in a home with a mother, not off at college. Let’s be real: College is for training workers in the workforce. Women aren’t called to do that.
This whole notion that you should get married, but until then go find a career so you don’t waste your time, is not what women are called, biblically, to do. Now, this does not mean she “doesn’t work.” She can assist her father in myriad ways within the productive household, and her mother as well.
Fourth, young women should be instructed, in line with Paul (1 Tim. 5:14; Titus 2), to continue serving in the household, with headship, under a godly mother. The best place for her to learn how to be a mother is in the home, with a mother.
Fifth, her father should actively seek a husband for her. He plays a pivotal role in vetting suitors, even as Abraham sought a wife for his son, Isaac.
Sixth, when women pursue degrees, rack up debt, and then chase careers, this actually hurts their marriageable status—men would have to inherit a boss babe, debt, etc. They’re also far busier advancing in business, which often prohibits them from spending time looking for a spouse. And they become wildly independent, which makes them unsuited for a role in which submission is the main ingredient.
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This would only make sense if a) a university degree were actually necessary to raise godly young men (which it isn’t – several old-order Mennonites do it even without a high school degree) AND b) if we are to assume that the father will either not pursue higher education himself or is just not involved in raising his sons at all. So the entire idea is built on a false premise. We are missing out on that special group of young, not yet married women in our modern churches, because they are pushed into carreers. But isn’t it exactly that group, still living at home with their parents, who has the most opportunity to help the poor and elderly in their church community? Wouldn’t they be the perfect church babysitters, whenever needed? How about instead of middle-aged Mom nursing elderly Grandma while still raising the younger kids (or worse, sending Grandma off to a nursing home) the older, unmarried granddaughters take over some of the nursing duties. And yes: Dads need to be active in helping their daughters find husbands. I don’t know if I would have even met my husband, or anyone comparable, if my father hadn’t been involved.
What’s your thoughts on female doctors?
Women shouldn’t be in the workforce. Female doctors must go into a lot of debt for many years of education during their most fertile years and then work many years just to pay off the debt. It’s an extremely stressful job, too. God didn’t create them for this.
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A friend’s daughter went to a local college. In the country where we live, there is college, and University. Very different. For my friends daughter, it was to gain life skills and help with reading and writing skills etc. She only went a few hours a day, two days a week. She has intellectual disability, and it was designed specifically for people like her. She showed me a certificate showing she passed. She was so proud of it!
I just smiled and stayed quiet
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If a woman doesn’t have an education or is skilled in a career, what does she do in the case where her husband leaves her or dies prematurely and leaves her with children to support?
She seeks a way to make money from home, like taking in a few children to care for. Biblically, the family, relatives, and churches are to care for widows. Read 1 Timothy 5. God never even hints at women leaving their homes for the workforce.