From Youyi's autobiography Little Feet and Western Clothes, one can see that unlike many old-fashioned women, Zhang not only didn't have her feet bound, but she also studied the Chinese classics with her brothers, and demanded that her parents let her enter a school in Suzhou to study geography, math, literature and history.
從幼儀的自傳《小腳與西服》看來，與許多舊式女子不同，張幼儀不僅未纏過腳，還跟家裡的兄弟們一起學四書五經，也央求父母讓她進蘇州的新式學堂，上過地理、算學、文學、歷史等課。