The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us; to develop, to their fullest extent, the capacities of every kind with which the God who made us has endowed us.
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- Anna Brownell Jameson
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- Anna Brownell Jameson, Education, Winter Studies and Summer Rambles.
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