Education [is not] a discipline at all. Half vocational, half an emptiness dressed up in garments borrowed from philosophy, psycho...logy, literature.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It's fairly obvious that American education is a cultural flop. Americans are not a well-educated people culturally, and their voc...ational education often has to be learned all over again after they leave school and college. On the other hand, they have open quick minds and if their education has little sharp positive value, it has not the stultifying effects of a more rigid training.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Can a woman become a genius of the first class? Nobody can know unless women in general shall have equal opportunity with men in e...ducation, in vocational choice, and in social welcome of their best intellectual work for a number of generations.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I think the most important education that we have is the education which now I am glad to say is being accepted as the proper one,... and one which ought to be widely diffused, that industrial, vocational education which puts young men and women in a position from which they can by their own efforts work themselves to independence.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The ability to secure an independent livelihood and honorable employ suited to her education and capacities is the only true found...ation of the social elevation of woman, even in the very highest classes of society. While she continues to be educated only to be somebody's wife, and is left without any aim in life till that somebody either in love, or in pity, or in selfish regard at last grants her the opportunity, she can never be truly independent.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is ... to my three children [that] I owe my very being. In attempting to fulfill my duty to them as a mother, I met the challen...ge of their helplessness, their innocence, their dependence. Despising cowardice in others, I wished to prove myself no coward. Believing in the good, the gentle, the beautiful things of life, I addressed myself to the sweet duty of keeping these attributes for my children's sake and my own. And in striving to provide a living for them, I found a success beyond my wildest dreams.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
[My daughter] says she wants to marry a rich man, so she can have a Porsche. My rejoinder always is: Go out and get rich yourself,... so you can buy your own.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »