Latin American Education

Famous quotes containing the words latin, american and/or education:

    “They named it Ovation from the Latin ovis [a sheep].”
    —Plutarch (46–120)

    “The American character looks always as if it had just had a rather bad haircut, which gives it, in our eyes at any rate, a greater humanity than the European, which even among its beggars has an all too professional air.”
    —Mary McCarthy (1912–1989)

    “One of the greatest faults of the women of the present time is a silly fear of things, and one object of the education of girls should be to give them knowledge of what things are really dangerous.”
    —Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards (1842–1911)