Catharine Beecher Quote
Unusual precocity in children, is usually the result of an unhealthy state of the brain; and, in such cases, medical men would now direct, that the wonderful child should be deprived of all books and study, and turned to play or work in the fresh air.
A Treatise on Domestic Economy: For the Use of Young Ladies at Home, and at School (ed. 1843)
