"By educating women to use all their brains, men will not only be just, but will also ensure the future of a new social order in which women will apply their intelligence and warm feelings to the problems of living. Men are fools to entrust the upbringing of their sons, whom they expect to grow up to love freedom, to women who have never known freedom themselves."
Eugenio Maria de Hostos was a Puerto Rican educator, philosopher, and independence advocate active across Latin America and the Caribbean. He promoted secular education, civil reform, and anticolonial thought in the nineteenth century. His work influenced pedagogy and political discourse in multiple countries.