Now, if the principle of toleration were once admitted into classical education -- if it were admitted that the great object is to read and enjoy a language, and the stress of the teaching were placed on the few things absolutely essential to this result, if the tortoise were allowed time to creep, and the bird permitted to fly, and the fish to swim, towards the enchanted and divine sources of Helicon -- all might in their own way arrive there, and rejoice in its flowers, its beauty, and its coolness.

Famous Quotes / Harriet Beecher Stowe

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Harriet Beecher Stowe: "Now, if the principle of toleration were once admitted into classical education -- if it were admitted that the great object is to read and enjoy a language, and the stress of the teaching were placed on the few things absolutely essential to this result, if the tortoise were allowed time to creep, and the bird permitted to fly, and the fish to swim, towards the enchanted and divine sources of Helicon -- all might in their own way arrive there, and rejoice in its flowers, its beauty, and its coolness."

Quotations about

Absolutely	Admitted	Allowed	Arrive
Beauty	Bird	Classical	Coolness
Creep	Divine	Education	Enchanted
Enjoy	Essential	Fish	Flowers
Great	Helicon	Into	Language
Might	Object	Once	Permitted
Placed	Principle	Read	Rejoice
Result	Sources	Stress	Swim
Teaching	Things	Time	Toleration
Tortoise	Towards

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Now, if the principle of toleration were once admitted into classical education -- if it were admitted that the great object is to read and enjoy a language, and the stress of the teaching were placed on the few things absolutely essential to this result, if the tortoise were allowed time to creep, and the bird permitted to fly, and the fish to swim, towards the enchanted and divine sources of Helicon -- all might in their own way arrive there, and rejoice in its flowers, its beauty, and its coolness. - Harriet Beecher Stowe