Lectures Quotes
The police knew she was a leftist but most didn’t really understand what that meant. In those days, police were not very well educated and many had no more than a few grades of elementary school. They were assigned to keep order at her public speeches (where there were sometimes protestors threatening violence), but the police would often erroneously assume that something she would say was illegal—freedom of speech was not what it is today. She was quite used to the harassment. Most police at the beginning of the 21st century are still generally undereducated with only a small minority being college graduates.
Spock’s book on parenting has sold more copies than any other book with the exception of The Bible.
on the University of California campus before he became Chancellor
The Palace of Wisdom is said to be the first official non-religious academy or university in the Islamic World—it seems the Christian world as well. It taught the sciences including astronomy, logic, philosophy, mathematics, as well as history, theology, languages and medicine. Note that women were educated also, albeit separately. And this was under a Caliph who was a fundamentalist. This quotation is frequently used to demonstrate that the recent trend of some Islamic fundamentalism—the Taliban for example—toward keeping females in ignorance is not a Muslim tradition and has not traditionally been interpreted as a mandate of the religion until recently. Note that the same male “professors” who taught the men, also taught the women. So just as women could be in the presence of male close relatives, teachers were provided the same exception, unlike the interpretation of the Taliban and other fundamentalist Muslims who would not allow women to be taught be men if at all.
