two things from Anne of Avonlea

1. Anne graduates from college at age 16 (granted it is a one year teaching degree) and is teaching her own school at 17 (along with many of her classmates). How many 17 year-olds do you know that are teaching a whole school room of children from 6 years-old to16 years-old? I can't believe that this is entirely fictitious that people used to teach school at such a young age and be given such great responsibility. Again, this reminded me that we give people too little responsibility these days. Apparently, people are capable of so much more. I am not saying all 17 year-olds should be given charge of a classroom, but that more than we think could run a classroom and teach material.


2. A quote:

"Perhaps, after all, romance did not come into one's life with pomp and blare, like a gay knight riding down; perhaps it crept to one's side like an old friend through quiet ways; perhaps it revealed itself in seeming prose, until some sudden shaft illumination flung athwart its pages betrayed the rhythm and the music; perhaps... perhaps... love unfolded naturally out of a beautiful friendship, as a golden-hearted rose slipping from its green sheath."