Give the child good books, then let it alone! Don't plough and harrow its brain, or stretch it on Procrustes-beds of standardization, simplification, and what not!
To thousands of elder women in the late sixties and early seventies [the private women's club movement] came like a new gospel ofactivity and service… - Laura E. Richards
To thousands of elder women in the late sixties and early seventies [the private women's club movement] came like a new gospel ofactivity and service…
- Laura E. Richards
I eat till, honest, I felt every button on all my clo'es. The folks where we were stayin' were the old-fashioned hospitable kind; they didn't let you… - Laura E. Richards
I eat till, honest, I felt every button on all my clo'es. The folks where we were stayin' were the old-fashioned hospitable kind; they didn't let you…
read the Bible to the children, until they are old enough to read for themselves ... The Bible, not nursery versions of it. There is a Bible in words… - Laura E. Richards
read the Bible to the children, until they are old enough to read for themselves ... The Bible, not nursery versions of it. There is a Bible in words…
You couldn't find nobody deader, not if you'd sarched for a week. Why, door nails, and Julius Caesar, and things o' that description, would ha' been … - Laura E. Richards
You couldn't find nobody deader, not if you'd sarched for a week. Why, door nails, and Julius Caesar, and things o' that description, would ha' been …
And the storm went on. It roared, it bellowed, and it screeched: it thumped and it kerwhalloped. The great seas would come bunt agin the rocks, as if… - Laura E. Richards
And the storm went on. It roared, it bellowed, and it screeched: it thumped and it kerwhalloped. The great seas would come bunt agin the rocks, as if…
I do not believe in confining children to things they understand. They want, and they need, the thing they do not understand. - Laura E. Richards
I do not believe in confining children to things they understand. They want, and they need, the thing they do not understand.
Give the child good books, then let it alone! Don't plough and harrow its brain, or stretch it on Procrustes-beds of standardization, simplification,… - Laura E. Richards
Give the child good books, then let it alone! Don't plough and harrow its brain, or stretch it on Procrustes-beds of standardization, simplification,…
I would rather read poetry than eat my dinner any day. It has been so all my life. - Laura E. Richards
I would rather read poetry than eat my dinner any day. It has been so all my life.
Once there was an elephant Who tried to use the telephant. No! no! I mean an elephone Who tried to use the telephone. Dear me, I am not certain quite… - Laura E. Richards
Once there was an elephant Who tried to use the telephant. No! no! I mean an elephone Who tried to use the telephone. Dear me, I am not certain quite…
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