Emma Willard Quotes

4 quotes:

"There are many females of ability to whom the business of instructing children is highly acceptable; and who would devote all their faculties to their occupation. For they would have no higher pecuniary object to engage their attention; and their reputation as instructors they would consider as important."

Author: Willard Quotes Category: Reputation Quotes Female Quotes

"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?"

Author: Willard Quotes Category: American Activist Quotes

"In inquiring concerning the benefits of the plan proposed, I shall proceed upon the supposition that female seminaries will be patronized throughout our country."

Author: Willard Quotes Category: American Activist Quotes

"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."

Author: Willard Quotes Category: American Activist Quotes