Quotes About Education

Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience.

Unless children have strong education and strong families and strong communities and decent housing, it's not enough to go sit in at a lunch counter.

I just think that unless you have that cohesiveness in the family unit, the male character tends to become very dominant, repressive and insensitive. So much of this comes also from a lack of education.

Like, in high school, I was a good student and got straight As. It was very strict and you couldn't do well there unless you studied very hard, but every time there was any trouble, I was the first person they would be talking to.

The extremists are afraid of books and pens, the power of education frightens them. they are afraid of women.

Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.

If we bring about that women seek to gain the rights of independence, to increase their sphere of responsibilities, and to incline toward studies, then human abilities will increase daily.

There is considerable evidence that women's education and literacy tend to reduce the mortality rates of children

Women aren't the problem but the solution. The plight of girls is no more a tragedy than an opportunity.

They lived freely among the students, they argued with the men over philosophical, sociological and artistic matters, they were just as good as the men themselves: only better, since they were women.

Sophie Germain proved to the world that even a woman can accomplish something in the most rigorous and abstract of sciences and for that reason would well have deserved an honorary degree.

Freedom from discrimination for women, ensuring that female children can learn to read, these are human needs for half the human race, not western values.

When young girls are encouraged to explore what they find interesting, they grow up to be interesting women.

We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet.

Education of both men and women is a wonderful contraceptive.

I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women.

Schools are generally feminine places, institutions where conformity is valued, taught largely by conformist women.

If there is something I would like to do as President of the General Assembly, it is to place more emphasis on the issue of education, which enables a better life for women.

Women I know are smart, educated, intelligent, capable of doing anything that anybody else can do.

It was easy for me to be ridiculed and for both men and women to perceive that maybe I'm a bit crazy because I'm educated in the West and I have lost some of my basic decency as an African woman.

I've said this before, that, when you're in school and you're the class clown, men are really good at making fun at other people and women are really good at making fun of themselves.

It is hardly surprising that women concentrate on the way they look instead of what is in their minds since not much has been put in their minds to begin with.

Half of architecture students are women, and you see respected, established female architects all the time.

Columbia Law School men were being drafted, and suddenly women who had done well in college were considered acceptable candidates for the vacant seats.