Frances Gray Patton > Quotes

“By six years of drill and example - forty-five minutes a day, Monday through Friday, September through May - Miss Dove hda brought many a child to comform to a code that ran counter to his inclinations. But now and then -oh, a dozen times, perhaps in the course of her teaching career - she had met a child in whom the ethical instinct, microcosmic but fully-formed, was as innate as original sin. It was an almost mystical thing, that gift for goodness - and rarer than mathematical genius or perfect pitch.”
― Frances Gray Patton, Good Morning, Miss Dove