According to Wollstonecraft, in what way will bettering women’s education benefit men?

Wollstonecraft's ideas were considered radical in her time, but to us they can seem tame and even conservative. In her Vindication of the Rights of Women, she advocates for better education for women primarily so that women can become more useful and companionable wives to their husbands and better mothers to their children. 

She argues that instead of teaching women to be manipulative and silly by giving them little access to knowledge and ideas, women...

Wollstonecraft's ideas were considered radical in her time, but to us they can seem tame and even conservative. In her Vindication of the Rights of Women, she advocates for better education for women primarily so that women can become more useful and companionable wives to their husbands and better mothers to their children. 

She argues that instead of teaching women to be manipulative and silly by giving them little access to knowledge and ideas, women should be educated, like men, as "rational" people so that their husbands will want to talk to them and spend time to them, so that they can offer their husbands wise advice and manage the household well, and so that overall they contribute to the betterment of society. Women are as capable of reason as men, she argues, if they are given access to the same education. 

Wollstonecraft envisions separate spheres for men and women, with men out in public and women in the home. Because women are the parent that raises the children, she believes they should be educated to provide wise guidance. This would provide society with both better adult men and better wives for these men in the future.