Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Dorothy Canfield Fisherwas an educational reformer, social activist, and best-selling American author in the early decades of the twentieth century. She strongly supported women's rights, racial equality, and lifelong education. Eleanor Roosevelt named her one of the ten most influential women in the United States. In addition to bringing the Montessori method of child-rearing to the U.S., she presided over the country's first adult education program and shaped literary tastes by serving as a member of the Book of the...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth17 February 1879
CountryUnited States of America
The actions of a human being, even of fifteen months of age, may not be without significance to a sympathetic eye.
If we could learn how to utilize all the intelligence and patent good will children are born with, instead of ignoring much of it - why - there might be enough to go around! There might be enough to solve our alarming human problems, to put an end to poverty, to stop waging wars.
It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.
What's the use of inventing a better system as long as there just aren't enough folks with sense to go around?
One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.
Freedom is not worth fighting for if it means no more than license for everyone to get as much as he can for himself.
A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
A mother is not a person to lean on but person to make leaning unnecessary.