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Emma Willard Quotes |
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Type: Activist Quotes Category: American Activist Quotes Date of Birth: February 23, 1787 Date of Death: April 15, 1870 Nationality: American Find on Amazon: Emma Willard Related Authors: Malcolm X Noam Chomsky Saul Alinsky Rosa Parks Susan B. Anthony Michael Moore Gloria Steinem Harriet Tubman Sojourner Truth |
Aware that his disappointment has its source in a defective education, he looks with anxiety on his other daughters, whose minds, like lovely buds, are beginning to open. Where shall he find a genial soil in which he may place them to expand?
Emma Willard His daughter returned from her boarding school, improved in fashionable airs and expert in manufacturing fashionable toys; but, in her conversation, he sought in vain for that refined and fertile mind which he had fondly expected. Emma Willard In inquiring concerning the benefits of the plan proposed, I shall proceed upon the supposition that female seminaries will be patronized throughout our country. Emma Willard |
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