 As a result, these women needed to be educated within the palace and could be sent anywhere that the government wished them to go.However, because they were maidservants, this also meant that they would not be able to quit practicing even if they wanted to.It was recorded in the Joseon Analects that Heo Do had been recorded stating, "When a man is seven years old, a man and a woman are not together, and they do not eat.