Noah Webster was a proud American even as a little boy I began life full of confidence in my own opinions he once said No one could argue with that
Words Numbers They tickled young Noah He learned to spell and count with his family at their home in West Hartford Connecticut My mother was my first teacher I was lucky to have such a well-educated mother
Noah read everything he could find In his opinion his father’s farm chores could wait especially if he had a new issue of the Courant REWRITE He gladly helped with the farm chores even when he had a new issue of the Courant