1793: Charlotte Corday guillotined for the assassination of Jean-Paul Marat
1793: Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps born (educator, science writer, sister of Emma Hart Willard)
1874: Louise Waterman Wise born (charity worker, Zionist, wife of Rabbi Stephen S. Wise)
1898: Berenice Abbott born (photographer, writer)
Quote for Today
He is not necessarily the best teacher who performs the most labour; makes his pupils work the hardest, and bustle the most. A hundred cents of copper, though they make more clatter and fill more space, have only a tenth of the value of one eagle of gold.
-- Emma Hart Willard, "How to Teach"
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