If one seminary should be well organized, its advantages would be found so great that others would soon be instituted and that sufficient patronage can be found to put one in operation may be presumed from its reasonableness and from the public opinion with regard to the present mode of female education.
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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?Emma Willard
If, then, women were properly fitted by instruction, they would be likely to teach children better than the other sex they could afford to do it cheaper and those men who would otherwise be engaged in this employment might be at liberty to add to the wealth of the nation, by any of those thousand occupations from which women are necessarily debarred.
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
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.
Emma Willard
Rock'd in the cradle of the deep, I lay me down in peace to sleep.
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