The great want of our race is perfect educators to train new-born minds, who are infallible teachers of what is right and true.

After returning East Catharine Beecher started The Ladies' Society for Promoting Education in the West. The Board of National Popular Education which was her idea trained teachers in four-week sessions in Connecticut and then sent them out West. Education
Beecher was educated at home until Catharine Beecher was ten years old when Catharine Beecher was sent to a private school in Litchfield Connecticut where Catharine Beecher was taught the limited curriculum available to young women.

Catharine Esther Beecher (September 6 1800 – May 12 1878) was an American educator known for her forthright opinions on female education as well as her vehement support of the many benefits of the incorporation of kindergarten into children's education.