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This is a purely halachic question, not a hashkafic one. The perisha in יו״ד סי׳ רמ״ו says: מפני שרוב נשים אין דעתם מכוונת כו’ אבל אם למדה לעצמה אנו רואות שיצאו מהרוב ולכך כתב לעיל שיש לה שכר ור”ל אם למדה התורה על מכונה שאינה מוציאה לדברי הבאי אבל האב אינו רשאי ללמדה דדילמא תוציא דבריה לדברי הבאי כי הוא אינו יודע מה שבלבה וק”ל.
Loose translation: “Because most women are not etc, But if she learns herself, we see that she is not part of the majority. This is the reasons why [the tur in the name of the rambam] says that she still is rewarded [if she learns], it means to say that if she learns torah properly and isn’t מוציא the divrei torah into דברי הבא [then she gets schar for her learning]. But the Father isn’t allowed to teach her because pehaps she will be מוציא her [divrei torah] to דברי הבאי, because he doesn’t know what’s in her heart [likely meaning: whether she is motivated and capable of taking the right things out of her studies].
This perisha would answer any questions about Bruriah, etc. Does anyone argue on the perisha about this? Perhaps. I don’t know.
R’ Moshe has a teshuva about this, where he says Bais Yaakov’s should not have mishnayos as part of their curriculum, although that was more of a question of introducing it as a mandatory part of the women’s curriculum, which seemingly even the perisha would be against. But this is a purely halachic question.