Education: Not in the Textbooks

The complete education of a daughter is something no American has ever been willing to leave entirely to the schoolteachers. Culling over their own back issues for wisdom on this and other subjects, the editors of the Reader's Digest last week republished Lines to a Daughter —Any Daughter (in an anthology entitled Fun Fare; Simon & Schuster, $2.50), written four years ago by Manhattanite Agnes Rogers:

One of the things that you really should know Is when to say "yes" and when to say "no."

There aren't any textbooks, there aren't many rules, The subject's neglected in orthodox schools. You can't...

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