"Education for all" is a demand that keeps on appearing in various historical contexts and is not just a phenomenon of the modern age. Taking the demand for "education for all" as a normative principle, this paper pursues the questions of how this demand was reflected in pedagogical reform programmes and in what way, as well as on the basis of which arguments, girls and women were included in this process. At the centre of this paper are the educational reforms of the eighteenth century that developed in Germany on the foundation of two strands of thought--Pietism and Enlightenment--and their ever-changing mutual relationship. With a view to the theme of the conference, it seems appropriate equally to highlight preceding traditions and to take premodernity as a starting point when dealing with this thematic complex. The integration of the female sex into pedagogical reform programmes is examined by means of three sketches at the time of early Pietism and the early and late Enlightenment. (Contains 79 footnotes.)