Mary Lyon, whose noble efforts established Mount Holyoke College,
and spread the idea of higher education for women throughout the
world, put the case of women's education in a nutshell. She
said:
"I think it less essential that the farmers and mechanics
should be educated than that their wives, the mothers of their
children, should be."
The education of a girl is important chiefly because it means the
educating of a future mother.
Whose brain but the mother's inspires and directs the son in the
early years, when knowledge is most easily absorbed and
permanently retained?
If you find in history a man whose success is based on
intellectual equipment, you find almost invariably that his
mother was exceptionally fortunate in her opportunities for
education.
Well educated women are essential to humanity. They insure abler
men in the future, and incidentally they make the ignorant man
feel ashamed of himself in the present.
ASTRONOMY WOMAN'S FUTURE WORK
In the centuries to come, perhaps a thousand centuries from now,
perhaps a little sooner, woman will get her chance on earth.
Population will have reached its normal limit, and nature's wise
law, dealing with a really civilized race, will automatically
limit children to two in each family.
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