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Listening Section Mary Lyon, 1797-1849 : A leader in Womens Education in the 19th Century
Welcome to people in America in VOA special English. Every week at this time, we tell the story of someone important in the history of the United States. Today, Steve Ember and Shirley Griffith tell about Mary Lyon. She a leader in womens education in the nineteenth century. During the nineteenth century, womens education was not .. important in the United States. Supporters of advanced education for women many problems. States did require each town to provide a school for children, but teachers often poorly prepared. Most young women were not able to continue on with their education in private schools. If they , they were often not taught much except the French language, how to sew clothing and music. Mary Lyon that womens education was extremely important. Through her life long work for education, she .one of the most famous women in the nineteenth century America. She . that women were teachers both in the home and in the classroom. And, she believed that efforts to better educate young women also served God. If women better educated, she felt, they teach in local schools throughout the United States and in foreign countries.

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South America. 3. where Tom lived in called Saint Petersburg.

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with his aunt because his parents were passed away.

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clean and tidy boy.

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Aunt Polly, loved Tom very much. 8. wanted Tom to behave well. 9. punished because he stole his aunts frug. 10. penalised Tom to paint the fence.