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Elizabeth Peabody
(16 May 1804 - 3 Jan 1894)
American educator and writer who started teaching at age 16, and later started her own school. She went to Germany to study the educational methods of Friedrich Fröbel, and influenced the movement to establish the first public kindergartens in the United States
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Science Quotes by Elizabeth Peabody (1 quote)
Children are to be guided to make a beginning in all the arts and sciences without interference with their spontaneity, the instinct of imitation being so used as to give them order without constraining them.
— Elizabeth Peabody
In Friedrich Fröbel and Josephine Jarvis (trans.), 'American Preface', The Education of Man (1885), vi.

In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
(1987) --
Carl Sagan
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