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Excerpt from Life and Work in Middlebury, Vermont, of Emma Willard Mrs. Emma Willard is known as the pioneer in the great movement of the nineteenth century for the higher education of woman. To say that she had a genius for teaching, that she devised improved methods, that she wrote admirable text-books, and that she impressed her own high ideals upon the characters of her pupils, is, indeed, great praise. But, it is a still greater glory to have started a movement which has revolutionized the ideas of the civilized world on the subject of woman's education- a movement which has culminated in the founding of grand colleges exclusively for women, and in the admission of women to older colleges on equal terms with men. For it is not too much to say that Wellesley, and Vassar, and their sister institutions on either side of the Atlantic, are the fair fruitage, in time, of those seminal ideas so ably set forth in Mrs. Willard's "Plan of Female Education." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.