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Emma Hart Willard: He is not...

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He is not necessarily the best teacher who performs the most labour; makes his pupils work the hardest, and bustle the most. A hundred cents of copper, though they make more clatter and fill more space, have only a tenth of the value of one gold eagle

Source: How to Teach, Address to the Columbian Association.
-- Emma Hart Willard, (Feb 23 1787-1870), US educator; She pioneered higher education for women; founded Troy Female Seminary in 1821, which became the Emma Willard School.


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