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Consider the positive and negative aspects of Jane Eyre’s education at Lowood. In what ways does it prepare her for her future life? In what ways does it fail to prepare her? Your answer should be at least 150 words.

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Reading Jane Eyre's Education, the most striking positive outcome of her engagement in education is the desire for self-education. This certainly contributes to her prospect for future life, because such a developed character helps throughout the whole life in various newly emerging circumstances. Furthermore, the ability to read gives her a sense of the world, and develops her imagination, improves the use of language, as well as the invocation to say and to fight for what she thinks. What she develops as a tool for achieving what she thinks, which is the result of reading and developing imagination, intuition, and strong attitude, is creating strong preferences and antipathies to what she considers to be unjust. Thus, she develops a strong sense of justice and hatred for oppression. All this is certainly preparation for future life.

On the other hand, a school with a rigorous and rigid Christian morality constantly reminds them of a dependable status, and it implies female non-generative nature and uses rudeness to suppress their natural behavior. This fact always limits personality, and it never reflects well on future life. What also fails to prepare for future life is the fact that education teaches them basic musical performances, basic art skills and a little foreign language. They teach them to be cultivated but do not make them useful for anything other than teaching. Education is a safe haven, because it does provide emotional satisfaction in a protected area separate from the world's hardship. That is partly good, but education should teach how to cope with all the difficulties of the world.

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