Catharine Beecher Quote

The school should be an appendage of the family state, and modeled on its primary principle, which is, to train the ignorant and weak by self-sacrificing labor and love; and to bestow the most on the weakest, the most undeveloped, and the most sinful.


Woman Suffrage and Woman's Profession (ed. 1871)


The school should be an appendage of the family state, and modeled on its primary principle, which is, to train the ignorant and weak by...

The school should be an appendage of the family state, and modeled on its primary principle, which is, to train the ignorant and weak by...

The school should be an appendage of the family state, and modeled on its primary principle, which is, to train the ignorant and weak by...

The school should be an appendage of the family state, and modeled on its primary principle, which is, to train the ignorant and weak by...