Education

Your B.A. does not belong to you alone, just as the earth does not belong to its present tenants alone. Your education was lent to you by women of the past, and you will give some back to living women, and to your daughters seven generations from now.

Seventy-five percent of your education was paid for by your tuition, but twenty-five percent was paid for by people who never met you, through direct contributions to your endowment. They did not know who you were but gave generously so you could have your education.

Try to build and treat your vocabulary the way you are to treat your checking account. Pay every attention to it and try to increase your earnings. The purpose is to enable you to articulate yourselves as fully and precisely as possible.

BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD. Keep on reading. And remember when you hear yourself saying you don't have time anymore to read — then you're getting old. That means they got to you, after all.

The most useful suggestion I can make is that you go on being students for the rest of your lives. Don't move to a mental slum.

Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.

You cannot afford to think of being here to receive an education: you will do much better to think of being here to claim one.

A good education in skepticism can help us to discover those bad guesses, and to destroy them with mockery and contempt.

Throughout the world, mutual suspicions flourish in ignorance and misunderstanding. They can be dispelled only with knowledge and wisdom.

Hand and head and heart were made to work together. They must work together. They should be educated together.

If the women of the world really make their influence felt, war will surely be outlawed and stay outlawed.

A girl might marry a missionary or a traveler and go to strange lands, in which case a knowledge of maps and the names of cities, rivers, and the countries would be useful. Presumably, geography was included in the studies at Troy.