Education In Feudal Times

Was not limited to preparing male youths to rule or to serve.
It was about preparing 'the fairer sex' in running the household,
and being skilled in the softer arts, embroidery and playing music
and the many other skills without which, even in feudal times,
a home was not a home, was not civilised. 

That what many women knew and did
in feudal times is now lost,
except to researchers of obscurities,
is more to our loss more than theirs.

It is as true now as it was then
that for life to be fit for sharing
that life had to look beyond 
the pursuit of power through conflict.