Now, five years is nothing in a man's life except when he is very young and very old... - Wang Lung
Pearl S. BuckRead
Let woman out of the home, let man into it, should be the aim of education. The home needs man, and the world outside needs woman.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Education should empower both women and men to participate fully in both home and society.
This quote by Pearl S. Buck emphasizes the importance of education in enabling women to step out into the world while encouraging men to engage in domestic life. It suggests a balanced approach to gender roles, advocating for equal opportunities and responsibilities in both public and private spheres as crucial for a thriving society.
Themes
EducationGender EqualityWomen EmpowermentMen'S RolesHome
In practice
Example use cases
A speaker at a women's rights conference might use this quote to highlight the importance of education.
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We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.
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To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.
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The lack of emotional security of our American young people is due, I believe, to their isolation from the larger family unit. No two people - no mere father and mother - as I have often said, are enough to provide emotional security for a child. He needs to feel himself one in a world of kinfolk, persons of variety in age and temperament, and yet allied to himself by an indissoluble bond which he cannot break if he could, for nature has welded him into it before he was born.
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God is not in the vastness of greatness. He is hid in the vastness of smallness . He is not in the general. He is in the particular.
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