| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 6393 |
| QUOTATION: | ... the school should be an appendage of the family state, and modeled on its primary principle, which is, to train the ignorant and weak by self-sacrificing labor and love; and to bestow the most on the weakest, the most undeveloped, and the most sinful. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Catherine E. Beecher (1800–1878), U.S. educator and author. Woman Suffrage and Woman’s Profession (1871). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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