I wish you would tell me just how you have gone about schooling your children." "By educating ourselves before their coming, and with them afterward.
Self-control, study, work, joy of life, satisfaction with what we have had, never-ending strife to go higher, and to do better--Dr.Fenner laughs when I talk of these things.

He says he can take a little naked Hottentot from the jungle, and educate it to the same degree that I can one of mine.

I don't know; but if these things do not help before birth, at least they do not hinder; and afterward, you are in the groove in which you want your children to run.

With all our twelve there never has been one who at nine months of age did not stop crying if its father lifted his finger, or tapped his foot and told it to.
From the start we have rigorously guarded our speech and actions before them.

From the first tiny baby my husband has taught all of them to read, write and cipher some, before they went to school at all.