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!
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…
- 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 … - 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 …
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.
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…
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…
We know our neighbors - so far as we have the right to know them. We hear of their joys and their sorrows, and hasten to make them ours so far as we … - Laura E. Richards
We know our neighbors - so far as we have the right to know them. We hear of their joys and their sorrows, and hasten to make them ours so far as we …
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…
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.
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