dual personalities

From an address to the parents by Ronald Beasley, headmaster of Mary Institute, October 10, 1949:

This is the goal we must strive for at Mary Institute: to teach our girls they must live with themselves…If we can develop within the child the conviction that the great things in the world are the things within her–not those outside such as the radio and the telephone–and can give her the inner strength to be herself, to stand firmly by the conviction that she can be herself, then Mary Institute will serve the future as it has the past.

Well, besides the quaint “radio and telephone”, it holds up–I am totally about living with myself.

And for the record, I don’t mind being referred to as one of “our girls”.