...those who must, of necessity, nurture and guide botk sexes through the plastic and forming periods of early life — the future wives and mothers of...Yet, if it is true that " the child is father to the irtan," it is equally true that the mother moulds the child, and makes it what she will, or rather...

...those who must, of necessity, nurture and guide both sexes through the plastic and forming periods of early life — the future wives and mothers of...be weak, slight-nurtured, and imbecile, great men cannot grow. This is so generally acknowledged that it is no longer an open question whether women...

...reformers ; and save the child if you save Christianity, may be taken as an equally axiomatic principle. If it is true that "the child is father to the man," it will also be found true that he cannot fail to be father to the church as well. All that Pestalozzi...