Emma Willard Quotes
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It is obvious, that theory alone, can never make a good artist; and it is equally obvious, that practice unaided by theory, can never correct errors, but must establish them.
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He is not necessarily the best teacher who performs the most labour; makes his pupils work the hardest, and bustle the most. A hundred cents of copper, though they make more clatter and fill more space, have only a tenth of the value of one gold eagle.
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Without alteration there can be no improvement.
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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?
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We too are primary existences . . . the companions, not the satellites of men.
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Any women has a right to open a school in any place; and no one, either from law or custom, can prevent her.
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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.
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The taste of men, whatever it might happen to be, has been made a standard for the formation of the female character.
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Though well to decorate the blossom, it is far better to prepare for the harvest.
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Take care of health; for without it existence is, for every purpose of enjoyment, worse than a blank.
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In inquiring concerning the benefits of the plan proposed, I shall proceed upon the supposition that female seminaries will be patronized throughout our country.
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Who knows how great and good a race of men may yet arise from the forming hands of mothers, enlightened by the bounty of their beloved country?
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Would we rear the human plant to its perfection, we must fertilize the soil which produces it.