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Introduction: Educational Lives and Networks

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There they go, our brothers who have been educated at public schools and universities, mounting those steps, passing in and out of those doors, ascending those pulpits, preaching, teaching, administering justice, practising medicine, transacting business, making money. It is a solemn sight always — a procession […] For we have to ask ourselves here and now, do we wish to join the procession, or don’t we? On what terms shall we join that procession? Above all, where is it leading us, the procession of educated men?1

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Fitzgerald, T., Smyth, E.M. (2014). Introduction: Educational Lives and Networks. In: Fitzgerald, T., Smyth, E.M. (eds) Women Educators, Leaders and Activists. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137303523_1

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