Ezekiel Cheever (1614-1708) was a schoolmaster, and the author of "probably the earliest American school book", Accidence, A Short Introduction to the Latin Tongue. Upon his death, it was said that "New England never known a better teacher." He has been called "the chief representative of the colonial schoolmaster".
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“As is the mother, so is her daughter.”
—Bible: Hebrew Ezekiel 16:44.
“The organizations of men, like men themselves, seem subject to deafness, nearsightedness, lameness, and involuntary cruelty. We seem tragically unable to help one another, to understand one another.”
—John Cheever (1912–1982)