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“Yet she was no bureaucrat; her practice was as various and elastic as her principles were constant; there was the method and even the letter, but above all the spirit.” quote by Parents' National Education Union — Download Open image

““Yet she was no bureaucrat; her practice was as various and elastic as her principles were constant; there was the method and even the letter, but above all the spirit.””

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“When she talked with you she brought out the best that was in you, something that you did not know was there.”

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