Throwing herself into learning helped Miri ignore the painful chill of solitude around her.

[The public school system is] usually a twelve year sentence of mind control.
Crushing creativity, smashing individualism, encouraging collectivism and
compromise, destroying the exercise of intellectual inquiry, twisting it
instead into meek subservience to authority.

A teacher who loves learning earns the right and the ability to help others learn.

Instruction does much, but encouragement everything."

(Letter to A.F. Oeser, Nov. 9, 1768)

Learning, while at school, that the charge for the education of girls was the same as that for boys, and that, when they became teachers, women received only half as much as men for their services, the injustice of this distinction was so apparent, t

It's amazing to me that they're cutting physical education programs in the school systems.