Culture Quote by Alice Mattison

I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian…

— Daniel Defoe

The world is the book of women. Whatever knowledge they may possess is more commonly acquired by observation than by reading.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Girls and women are more likely to continue with their education if they feel the curriculum has some relevance to their own lives and…

— Tae Yoo

There are few subjects that match the social significance of women's education in the contemporary world.

— Amartya Sen

Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading…

— Anonymous

“Continued resistance to female education means that female illiteracy is higher than male, yet it is usually women who do the artificial feeding. Of…

— Gabrielle Palmer

Women, like men, must be educated with a view to action, or their studies cannot be called education.

— Harriet Martineau

At any rate, girls are differently situated. Having no need of deep scientific knowledge, their education is confined more to the ordinary things of…

— William John Wills

I have often wondered that learning is not thought a proper ingredient in the education of a woman of quality or fortune. Since they…

— Joseph Addison

“The formal education of women was rarely considered important. Girls of good birth were taught domestic skills at home or in a convent, and…

— Alison Weir

In the education of women, the cultivation of the understanding is always subordinate to the acquirement of some corporeal accomplishment.

— Mary Wollstonecraft

In many developing countries, girls don't go to school. They stay home. They are at the water wells, bringing water back and forth to…

— Laura Bush