Female education ... has occupied my attention so far only as the educ…

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Female education ... has occupied my attention so far only as the education of my own daughters ... I thought it essential to give them a solid education which might enable them, when become mothers, to educate their own daughters, and even to direct the course for sons, should their fathers be. ✨ Thomas Jefferson, Jean M. Yarbrough (1963). The Essential Jefferson, p.247, Hackett Publishing
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