I was taught classical Hebrew by a Catholic Nun. I didn't know she was a Nun initially. She just wore rather conservative clothes and had very close cropped hair. Generally she was very serious about education, but once she was explaining something in Genesis and she said something casually dismissive about "fairy stories".
My overall take was she was a serious academic who had side stepped the social expectations of 1960s Ireland by taking vows and then getting on with her work.
This was a fairly common route for women who didn't want to participate in the ridiculous rules of the time. A friend on the other side of 90 was a graduate of psychiatry but wasn't allowed to work once she got married-literally, that was the law in her country. Until the laws changed sometime in the 60s.
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I was taught classical Hebrew by a Catholic Nun. I didn't know she was a Nun initially. She just wore rather conservative clothes and had very close cropped hair. Generally she was very serious about education, but once she was explaining something in Genesis and she said something casually dismissive about "fairy stories".
My overall take was she was a serious academic who had side stepped the social expectations of 1960s Ireland by taking vows and then getting on with her work.
This was a fairly common route for women who didn't want to participate in the ridiculous rules of the time. A friend on the other side of 90 was a graduate of psychiatry but wasn't allowed to work once she got married-literally, that was the law in her country. Until the laws changed sometime in the 60s.