“The more education a woman has, the wider the gap between men’s and women’s earnings for the same work.”– Sandra Day O’Connor Related Quotes “Will this be in the examination, Mr Hecker?” was the limit of my students’ interest in any given subject. If it was going to be in the test they took notes, if it was not going to be in the test they did not take notes. Their silent, depthless stares were unnerving. I told myself that they were not stupid – for how could the final attainment of thousands of years of human progress be stupid?”— Tod Wodicka “An education is truly “fitted for freedom” only if it is such as to produce free citizens, citizens who are free not because of wealth or birth, but because they can call their minds their own. Male and female, slave-born and freeborn, rich and poor, they have looked into themselves and developed the ability to separate mere habit and convention from what they can defend by argument. They have ownership of their own thought and speech, and this imparts to them a dignity that is far beyond the outer dignity of class and rank.”— Martha C. Nussbaum “A system of education, which would not gratify this disposition in any party, is requisite, in order to obviate the difficulty, and the reader will find a something said to that purpose in perusing this tract.”– Joseph Lancaster