“Study as if you were going to live forever; live as if you were going to die tomorrow.”
-Maria Mitchell. Maria Mitchell was born on August 1, 1818, in Nantucket, Massachusetts. Maria was born into a Quaker religion. Her father strongly believed that girls should have as much education as boys. When she was 16 she was already an assistant teacher. Do to her strict schoolmaster she had an advantage over other kids in school, in that she could quickly find problems and solve them. Cyrus Perce was her schoolmaster and he also was the founder of the first public school in America, nowadays called a teachers college. Maria was just 17 when she decided to open up her own school but after a year she closed the school because she got an offer to be
-Maria Mitchell. Maria Mitchell was born on August 1, 1818, in Nantucket, Massachusetts. Maria was born into a Quaker religion. Her father strongly believed that girls should have as much education as boys. When she was 16 she was already an assistant teacher. Do to her strict schoolmaster she had an advantage over other kids in school, in that she could quickly find problems and solve them. Cyrus Perce was her schoolmaster and he also was the founder of the first public school in America, nowadays called a teachers college. Maria was just 17 when she decided to open up her own school but after a year she closed the school because she got an offer to be