Speech to the Hawarden Amateur Horticultural Society (17 August 1876), as quoted in "Mr. Gladstone On Cottage Gardening", The Times (18 August 1876), p. 9
1870s
“The friendship of two young people," says Goethe somewhere, "is delightful when the girl likes to learn and the boy to teach.”
Un Art de Vivre (The Art of Living) (1939), The Art of Friendship
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French writer 1885–1967Related quotes
“If you teach a boy, you educate an individual; but if you teach a girl, you educate a community.”
Source: Stones Into Schools: Promoting Peace With Books, Not Bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan
“Why do boys say someone acts like a girl as if it were an insult?”
Source: In the Hand of the Goddess
“Delightful task! to rear the tender thought,
To teach the young idea how to shoot.”
Source: The Seasons (1726-1730), Spring (1728), l. 1149-1150.
Ch. 5 http://books.google.com/books?id=94EEAAAAYAAJ&q=%22achieve+and+attain+young+girls+plan+for+whom+they+will+achieve+and+attain%22&pg=PA87#v=onepage
Women and Economics (1898)