mywildebeest:The [Alcott] girls were mostly educated at home. “I never went to school,” Louisa wro
mywildebeest: The [Alcott] girls were mostly educated at home. “I never went to school,” Louisa wrote, “except to my father or such governesses as from time to time came into the family… . so we had lessons each morning in the study. And very happy hours they were to us, for my father taught in the wise way which unfolds what lies in the child’s nature as a flower blooms, rather than crammed it, like a Strasburg goose, with more than it could digest. I never liked arithmetic nor grammar … but reading, writing, composition, history, and geography I enjoyed, as well as the stories read to us with a skill peculiarly his own.” -- source link