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Give the child good books, then let it alone! Don't plough and harrow its brain, or stretch it on Procrustes-beds of standardization, simplification, and what not!

Laura E. Richards

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Laura E. Richards
Age: 92 †
Born: 1850
Born: February 27
Died: 1943
Died: January 14
Biographer
Poet
Writer
Boston
Massachusetts
Laura Elizabeth Howe
Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards
Laura Elizabeth Richards
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Standardization
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Plough
Reading
Simplification
Give
Beds
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Stretch
Giving
Bed
Children
Brain
Good
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