Seven Sisters - Education

Education

  • Seven Sisters (colleges), a group of American women's colleges
  • The Seven Sisters of American Protestantism, an informal grouping of seven traditional mainline and liberal Protestant denominations

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Famous quotes containing the word education:

    What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind.
    —G.C. (Georg Christoph)

    ... in the education of women, the cultivation of the understanding is always subordinate to the acquirement of some corporeal accomplishment ...
    Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797)