Martha Van Rensselaer

Home economics should find its way into the curriculum of every school because the scientific study of a problem pertaining to food, shelter or clothing. . . raises manual labor that might be drudgery to the plane of intelligent effort that is always self-respecting. . . Home economics is not one department, in the sense in which dairying or entomology or soils is a department. It is not a single speciality. . . Many technical and educational departments will grow out of it as time goes on.