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The matter was that never before had [Betsy] known what she was doing in school. She had always thought she was there to pass from one grade to another, and she was ever so startled to get a glimpse of the fact that she was there to learn how to use her mind, so she could take care of herself when she came to be grown up.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

On New Year's Day every calendar, large and small, has the same number of dates. But we soon learn that the years are of very different lengths.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

If we could learn how to utilize all the intelligence and patent good will children are born with, instead of ignoring much of it — why — there might be enough to go around! There might be enough to solve our alarming human problems, to put an end to poverty, to stop waging wars.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher