Quotes About Education

In sixth grade, we all had to write this opinion paper. Most wrote about things like why we should be able to chew gum in class - I wrote about why women should receive equal pay.

In my mother's day, she didn't go to college. Not a lot of women did. Now for every two men who get a college degree, three women will do the same.

Women like signs of money and education - things that indicate that not only is this guy going to have some resources, but he's also willing to share them.

I think the degree of a nation's civilisation may be measured by the degree of enlightenment of its women.

Current education policy is not in the interests of women. An injustice is being perpetrated.

If you educate women, family size tends to go down.

Mainly because as women's education increases all around the planet, we find that family size tends to drop.

There weren't too many books by women that were taught in school, so I read those on my own, and the books I read were as accessible as the ones we were reading in school.

My curriculum would be the whole year. It would be really slow and it would be about human anatomy. I would teach people about women's bodies so they understand what Planned Parenthood is for.

I went to Princeton, I minored in women's studies.

I grew up definitely a feminist, but I didn't call myself a feminist until I took my first women's studies class in college.

I have often wondered that learning is not thought a proper ingredient in the education of a woman of quality or fortune. Since they have the same improvable minds as the male part of their species.

Lack of education is an extraordinary handicap when one is being offensive.

Princeton is quite integrated. Women are professors at Princeton. Women are students at Princeton. That began in the 1970s.

If written directions alone would suffice, libraries wouldn't need to have the rest of the universities attached.

I was blessed to get an education available to few black women in Africa at that time. Every woman should be able to get an education so she can serve others.

I was a home-schooled kid, living in the forest, and I didn't even have cable. I'm serious.

Women and girls have been my passion for my whole life.

We will also be funding projects that empower women and children in Afghanistan and now and then give scholarships to Afghan students here in the Bay Area.

As long as children and young men and women find pleasure in study, they will continue studying throughout life - and upon that depends their happiness.

That's a very, very touchy subject, domestic violence. I think women don't realize is it's something that's very prevalent. It goes on, on a daily basis.

Her cooking suggested she had attended the Cordon Noir.

I didn't know a lot about Amelia before I started flying. And as a woman and a pilot, I should have known more.

Because I also teach college, I am around a lot of young women who are just starting out, and I often see them coming up against certain expectations that may be more gender-specific.