... 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… — Catharine Beecher Copy Share Image
Woman's great mission is to train immature, weak and ignorant creatures to obey the laws of God; the physical, the intellectual, the social and… — Catharine Beecher Copy Share
... so large a portion of those who hold much capital, instead of using their various advantages for the greatest good of those around… — Catharine Beecher Copy Share
I regard the effort to introduce women into colleges for young men as very undesirable, and for many reasons. That the two sexes should… — Catharine Beecher Copy Share
As liberty and intelligence have increased the people have more and more revolted against the theological dogmas that contradict common sense and wound the… — Catharine Beecher Copy Share
We now come to the grand law of the system in which we are placed, as it has been developed by the experience of… — Catharine Beecher Copy Share
As if reasoning were any kind of writing or talking which tends to convince people that some doctrine or measure is true and right. — Catharine Beecher Copy Share
... all education must be unsound which does not propose for itself some object; and the highest of all objects must be that of… — Catharine Beecher Copy Share
If all females were not only well educated themselves but were prepared to communicate in an easy manner their stores of knowledge to others;… — Catharine Beecher Copy Share
Coffee it is best to buy by the bag, as it improves by keeping. Let it hang in the bag, in a dry place,… — Catharine Beecher Copy Share
The woman movement is one which is uniting by co-operating influences, all the antagonisms that are warring on the family state. Spiritualism, free love,… — Catharine Beecher Copy Share
... any men who would give up the law-making power to women in order to remedy existing evils, would surely be those most ready… — Catharine Beecher Copy Share
When the precepts and example of Jesus Christ fully interpermeate society, to labor with the hands will be regarded not only as a duty… — Catharine Beecher Copy Share
The great want of our race is perfect educators to train new-born minds, who are infallible teachers of what is right and true. — Catharine Beecher Copy Share
In civil and political affairs, American women take no interest or concern, except so far as they sympathize with their family and personal friends;… — Catharine Beecher Copy Share
... the history of the race, from infancy through its stages of barbarism, heathenism, civilization, and Christianity, is a process of suffering, as the… — Catharine Beecher Copy Share
