Comments on: LDS Women and Post Secondary Education

By: Eva

Eva — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 19:50:14 +0000

Yes, I added that.

By: ltbugaf

ltbugaf — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 05:23:57 +0000

I’m confused. In the quote from Pres Hinckley, is the “never mind your intellect” part something you added?

By: Eva

Eva — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 19:34:07 +0000

I don’t mean to offend the men that post on here… I’m not accusing you, what I’m asking you is are you willing to fully trust the guys your daughters are going to marry? How do you know he won’t get hit by a car 5 years and three children into the marriage?? A man is not a financial plan.

By: Eva

Eva — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 19:30:43 +0000

"Get all the education you can. Don't short circuit your future." (never mind your intellect)

--Pres. Gordon B. Hinckley, addressing women at a youth fireside.

By: Eva

Eva — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 19:25:27 +0000

Overall, however, the stats are in the favor of my opinion. And you can't deny that fact that there is a war going on and that divorce stats are on the rise.

It's just not smart for women to pretend that they're going to have this idealic little existence. To be honest, most of the women I know with that little existence are the ones who had careers and degrees prior to getting married.

That will be me next time.

And more than that, an education is not just about having worldly honors and money, it's more than anything about providing an example for children, and providing the best thing a mother can provide for her children other than love, testimony, and the basic needs of life: an intelligent, educated, knowledgeable mother who is more than an incubator.

By: Mary Siever

Fri, 17 Oct 2008 17:31:29 +0000

Eva

Yes, a man is not a financial plan, but it's certainly generalising to say 'men are the ones who cheat and go anti'. I am very sorry for your situation, but not all men are like your ex husband. Women and men have the same opportunities to make good or poor choices, and gender really has little to do with it.

By: Kim Siever

Fri, 17 Oct 2008 17:27:28 +0000

If anything, men are the ones who cheat, the ones who go anti, the ones who go to war and get killed.

Well, that's sexist.

That's like saying women make men cheat, make men go anti, and make men go off to war.

By: Eva

Eva — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 17:25:30 +0000

I wanted to have a "large observant family."

I stopped going to school, a little more than half-way through my BA because I married a nice observant LDS boy.

Within 3 years he became anti-mormon. I have since left him. He can be as anti as he wants - on his own.

My only regret about the whole thing, is that I didn't continue with my education.

A man is not a financial plan!! If anything, men are the ones who cheat, the ones who go anti, the ones who go to war and get killed.

It is stupid for women to not get educations.

By: ltbugaf

ltbugaf — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 04:45:15 +0000

"You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation."

-- Brigham Young

By: Jason of the East

Jason of the East — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 04:36:34 +0000

The latest The July Ensign biography of Henry B. Eyering may relate very well to this topic. Can’t quite remember but Dad was in the sciences and Mom got her PhD… I think.