Noah Webster Quotes


Dancing is an excellent amusement for young people, especially for those of sedentary occupations. Its excellence consists in exciting a cheerfulness of the mind, highly essential to health; in bracing the muscles of the body, and in producing copious perspiration.....The body must perspire, or must be out of order.


Citations

Webster, Noah. "On the Education of Youth in America." A Collection of Essays and Fugitiv Writings, I. Thomas and E. T. Andrews, 1790, p. 24.

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Noah Webster
Noah Webster
  • Born: October 16, 1758
  • Died: May 28, 1843
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Lexicographer, Author, Connecticut State Representative

Noah Webster Jr. was an American lexicographer, textbook pioneer, English-language spelling reformer, political writer, editor, and author. He has been called the "Father of American Scholarship and Education". His "Blue-backed Speller" books taught five generations of American children how to spell and read. Webster's name has become synonymous with "dictionary" in the United States, especially the modern Merriam-Webster dictionary that was first published in 1828 as An American Dictionary of the English Language.