We expect too much from our children. We exact from them a perfection which we are far from … - Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

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There is a force, a quickness that is translated through you into action. If you block it, the world will not have it.

Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

We expect too much from our children. We exact from them a perfection which we are far from carrying out in ourselves; we require of them sacrifices much heavier, comparatively, than those of any grown-up person.

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Unless a woman has a decided pleasure and facility in teaching, an honest knowledge of everything she professes to impart, a liking for children, and, above all, a strong moral sense of her responsibility towards them, for her to attempt to enroll herself in the scholastic order is absolute profanation.

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