Brian Aldiss
British science fiction writer (1925-2017)
Emma Willard
American educator and women's rights activist, 1787-1870
Emma Willardwas an American female education activist who dedicated her life to education. She worked in several schools and founded the first school for women’s higher education in the United States, the Troy Female Seminary in Troy, New York.
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Emma Willardwas an American female education activist who dedicated her life to education. She worked in several schools and founded the first school for women’s higher education in the United States, the Troy Female Seminary in Troy, New York. With the success of her school, Willard was able to travel across the country and abroad to promote education for women. The seminary was renamed the Emma Willard School in 1895 in her honor.
3 Quotes by Emma Willard
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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.
Emma WillardAmerican educator and women's rights activist, 1787-1870
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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 WillardAmerican educator and women's rights activist, 1787-1870
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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.
Emma WillardAmerican educator and women's rights activist, 1787-1870