life-education

Updated: May 19, 2025

Let women everywhere become solid thinkers so far as their capacities will admit, instead of triflers; let their life-education be deep, useful, and practical, instead of superficial and theoretical; let them be as well acquainted with the principles of society as they are with those of fashion; let them be as much interested in human progress as they are in dress and gossip; let them take into their hands the keys of knowledge and unlock the storehouses of practical wisdom all about them, and go in and lay hold of the treasures, and human society would soon blossom as the rose.

G. S. (George Sumner) Weaver - Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women: On the Various Duties of Life, Physical, Intellectual, And: Moral Development; Self-Culture, Improvement, Dress, Beauty,: Fashion, Employment, Education, The Home Relations, Their: Duties To Young Men, Marriage, Womanhood And Happiness.

Our duty is to educate ourselves as we should. Having hinted these general principles of Education, we may now address ourselves especially to young women, and apply them to their life. The daily life-education of the mass of young women is not what it should be. It is much like the life-education of the mass of young men. It is the Education of circumstances, custom, society, etc.

G. S. (George Sumner) Weaver - Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women: On the Various Duties of Life, Physical, Intellectual, And: Moral Development; Self-Culture, Improvement, Dress, Beauty,: Fashion, Employment, Education, The Home Relations, Their: Duties To Young Men, Marriage, Womanhood And Happiness.