How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions?

The beginning is always today.

Only that education deserves emphatically to be termed cultivation of the mind which teaches young people how to begin to think.

Perhaps the seeds of false-refinement, immorality, and vanity, have ever been shed by the great. Weak, artificial beings, raised above the common wants and defections of their race, in a premature and unnatural manner, undermine the very foundation of virtue, and spread corruption through the whole mass of society!

Let woman share the rights and she will emulate the virtues of man; for she must grow more perfect when emancipated.

At boarding schools of every description, the relaxation of the junior boys is mischief; and of the senior, vice.

To improve both sexes they ought, not only in private families, but in public schools, to be educated together. If marriage be the cement of society, mankind should all be educated after the same model, or the intercourse of the sexes will never deserve the name of fellowship.