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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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.Emma Willard
Rock'd in the cradle of the deep, I lay me down in peace to sleep.
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
That nature designed for our sex the care of children, she has made manifest by mental as well as physical indications. She has given us, in a greater degree than men, the gentle arts of insinuation to soften their minds and fit them to receive impressions a greater quickness of invention to vary modes of teaching to different dispositions and more patience to make repeated efforts.
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
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