Quotes by Stowe, Harriet Beecher

A little reflection will enable any person to detect in himself that s >>

No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man. >>

What makes saintliness in my view, as distinguished from ordinary good >>

Quotations about Education

When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course. >>

Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free peop >>

The secret in education lies in respecting the student. >>

Now, if the principle of toleration were once admitted into classical education --if it were admitted that the great object is to read and enjoy a language, and the stress of the teaching were placed on the few things absolutely essential to this result, if the tortoise were allowed time to creep, and the bird permitted to fly, and the fish to swim, towards the enchanted and divine sources of Helicon --all might in their own way arrive there, and rejoice in its flowers, its beauty, and its coolness.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher