4 Quotes & Sayings By Mabel Hale

Mabel Hale was a pioneer in the field of early childhood education. Born in 1875, she attended school through the seventh grade. In 1892, she married the Reverend William Hale, who was pastor of the First Baptist Church in Madison, Alabama. As a young mother, Mabel Hale helped found the Birmingham Child Guidance Clinic and served as its director from 1912 to 1928 Read more

She believed that children should be taught at a young age that there is a purpose for life—a purpose that extends beyond a person's life on earth. She promoted a philosophy that stressed the importance of self-expression and self-reliance as it related to child development and learning.

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Womanhood is a wonderful thing. In womankind we find the mothers of the race. There is no man so great, nor none sunk so low, but once he lay a helpless, innocent babe in a woman's arms and was dependent on her love and care for his existence. It is woman who rocks the cradle of the world and holds the first affections of mankind. She possesses a power beyond that of a king on his throne.. Womanhood stands for all that is pure and clean and noble. She who does not make the world better for having lived in it has failed to be all that a woman should be. . Mabel Hale
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Home is a little kingdom with rulers, laws, and subjects, each with a part to perform in order that life there shall be perfect. Mabel Hale
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Mothers possess a power beyond that of a king on his throne. Mabel Hale