"To throw obstacles in the way of a complete education is like putting out the eyes." ― Elizabeth Cady Stanton Topic(s): Education More From Elizabeth Cady Stanton "The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women’s emancipation." "The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality." "The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion." More In Education "The West has been able to bring Afghanistan a much better health service, better education, better roads, a better economy, though some have benefited more; some have benefited less from that economic well-being in Afghanistan."― Hamid Karzai "Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."― William Butler Yeats "It was depressing, very depressing. I worried about how I would make a living. I didn’t want to stay on the farm. It didn’t offer the challenge I wanted and yet, without a college education, I felt that I was really out of luck."― Clyde Tombaugh