The teachers of small children are paid more than they were, but still far less than the importance of their work deserves, and they are still regarded by the unenlightened majority as insignificant compared to those who impart information to older children and adolescents, a class of pupils which, in the nature of things, is vastly more able to protect its own individuality from the character of the teacher.
Dorothy Canfield FisherThe actions of a human being, even of fifteen months of age, may not be without significance to a sympathetic eye.
Dorothy Canfield FisherFreedom is not worth fighting for if it means no more than license for everyone to get as much as he can for himself.
Dorothy Canfield FisherAlmost anything is enough to keep alive someone who wishes nothing for himself but time to write music.
Dorothy Canfield Fisherit was always insolent for a common man to take a chair in the presence of a lady - the word LADY, we may be sure, capitalized in her mind, and denoting not sex but rank.
Dorothy Canfield Fisher