Miscellany:Women

Quotes concerning women: "[T]he effort to teach the Golden Rule to boys and girls will, at a minimum, result in a better observation of it on the parent's part. Children — highly impressionable — are far more guided by parental conduct that by parental admonishments. Thus, the attempt to teach this fundamental principle of morality and justice, resulting in highly exemplary behavior, may lead the child first to imitation and then to habitual observation and practice.

"Writing the above, which only hints at how boys and girls may get off to a good start in economic thinking, has supplied the missing explanation to something I have known for several years: women are more hopeful prospects than men in the contest between free market and authoritarian ideas! In our seminar activities, we have found the distaffers better students than the mill run of males, as well as more idealistic and less compromising. Beyond this, it is the mothers, rather than the fathers, in whose care the citizens of tomorrow are largely committed. It is primarily the mothers who will refine the methods for getting boys and girls on the track of sound thinking." — Leonard Read, Economics for Boys and Girls