It seems like one of the things to watch out for is going too deep too soon. Philosophers are a wordy bunch, and for some people, early enthusiasm starts to fizzle after plodding through several hours of Plato's more tedious call-and-response dialogues, or getting halfway through something by Kant only to realize that there's still another 400 pages to go; start brief. :) If the enthusiasm is kindled into a larger fire, then it can start to support those larger works. Fortunately, philosophy was a popular topic for essayists, and a few early writers were very good at brevity. The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius are brief and give a good outline of his thought. Some of Cicero's essays like, "On Friendship" might be worth a look. Maybe a few essays from Plutarch's massive "Moralia" collection... Augustine of Hippo's "On Free Choice of the Will" might be interesting if she is curious about Christian philosophy. Many of Michel de Montaigne's essays are of a philosophical nature, as are Francis Bacon's. Rene Descartes' Meditations on First Philosophy is fairly brief, as these things go. If you want conversation-starters, the Maxims of La Rochefoucauld are pretty good -- many of them have the character of witty comebacks, which can give them extra entertainment value. John Locke's "A Letter Concerning Toleration" might be worthwhile, if that is a subject that interests her. Maybe something short by David Hume, like one of his Four Dissertations? Jean-Jacques Rousseau wrote a few discourses on philosophical subjects that might be worth checking out, like his "Discourse on the Origin of Inequality". Ralph Waldo Emerson's essays are popular, and a good introduction to the American side of philosophy, in my opinion.

As long as people teach their children to watch out for rapists instead of for rape, rape culture is a risk. When people view rape as something that only rapists can do, rather than as a terrible potential that each and every person has within themselves, it encourages them to believe that as long as they avoid rapists, rape can't happen. Then when it does happen, people are stuck -- is their friend or loved one, a person they consider to be just like themselves, a rapist? Or was the act not rape? Caught between a rock and a hard place, the mind shuts down. Sadly, many people rationalize away the action, and abandon survivors at a time when they need friends the most -- the alternative, that a person they viewed to be just like themselves was capable of so monstrous an action, is just too much to bear. In a world of rapists and honest men, to find that a man you have identified as your own is a rapist is to put cracks in the foundations of your own self. If the friend just like you is a monster, then what are you? To my mind, this is one of the times when an education is truly put to the test. My heart goes out to any person who is forced to bear such a burden. I only hope that their education has prepared them to ask themselves some tough questions, and come to the right answers.

"Best" is generally whichever school produced a graduate that is closest to your own personal ideals; to answer that question, we would need to know what you expect a college degree in that major to do for the person holding it. If someone said that they went to college and majored in X, what would you assume about them? Who would you expect them to know? How would you expect others to treat them? Where would you see them working? What would you see them doing? How would you expect them to act?