Woman and the Higher EducationAnna Callender Brackett General introduction / Mrs. Blanche Wilder -- Preface / Miss Anna C. Brackett -- A plan for improving female education / Mrs. Emma Willard -- Female education / Mrs. Emma C. Embury -- The collegiate education of girls / Prof. Maria Mitchell, Vassar College -- A new knock at an old door / Mrs. Lucia Gilbert Runkle -- A review of the higher education of women / Mrs. Alice Freeman Palmer -- The teaching of history in academies and colleges / Prof. Lucy M. Salmon, Vassar College -- The private school for girls / Miss Anna C. Brackett. |
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Page 88 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.
Page 60 - His fair cheek rose and fell ; and his bright hair Waved softly to your breath ! — You ne'er kept watch Beside him, till the last pale star had set, And morn, all dazzling, as in triumph, broke On your dim weary eye ; not yours the face Which, early faded through fond care for him, Hung o'er his sleep, and, duly as heaven's light, Was there to greet his wakening ! You ne'er...
Page 60 - You ne'er made Your breast the pillow of his infancy, While to the fulness of your heart's glad heavings His fair cheek rose and fell, and his bright hair Waved softly to your breath! — You ne'er kept watch Beside him till the last pale star had set...
Page 87 - As long as boys and girls run about in the dirt, and trundle hoops together, they are both precisely alike. If you catch up one half of these creatures, and train them to a particular set of actions and opinions, and the other half to a perfectly opposite set, of course their understandings will differ, as one or the other sort of occupations has called this or that talent into action. * Edinburgh Review, 1810. There is surely no occasion to go into any deeper or more abstruse reasoning, in order...
Page 13 - Education should seek to bring its subjects to the perfection of their moral, intellectual and physical nature ; in order that they may be of the greatest possible use to themselves and others : or, to use a different expression, that they may be the me,ans of the greatest possible happiness of which they are capable, both as to what they enjoy, and what they communicate.
Page 4 - DEFECTS IN THE PRESENT MODE OF FEMALE EDUCATION, AND THEIR CAUSES Civilized nations have long since been convinced that education as it respects males will not, like trade, regulate itself; and hence they have made it a prime object to provide that sex with everything requisite to facilitate their progress in learning; but female education has been left to the mercy of private adventurers; and the consequence has been to our sex the same as it would have been to the other had legislatures left their...
Page 20 - A library, containing books on the various subjects in which the pupils were to receive instruction; musical instruments, some good paintings, to form the taste and serve as models for the execution of those who were to be instructed in that art; maps, globes, and a small collection of philosophical apparatus.
Page 13 - Studies and employments should, therefore, be selected, from one or both of the following considerations : either because they are peculiarly fitted to improve the faculties ; or, because they are such as the pupil will most probably have occasion to practice in future life.
Page 29 - The harmony of sound, has a tendency to produce a correspondent harmony of soul ; and that art, which obliges us to study nature, in order to imitate her, often enkindles the latent spark of taste — of sensibility for her beauties, till it glows to adoration for their author, and a refined love of all his works.
Page 6 - Concerning these schools it may be observed : 1. They are temporary institutions, formed by individuals, whose object is present emolument. But they cannot be expected to be greatly lucrative ; therefore, the individuals who establish them, cannot afford to provide suitable accommodations as to room. At night, the pupils are frequently crowded in their lodging rooms ; and during the day, they are generally placed together in one apartment. where there is a heterogeneous mixture of different kinds...