Education and Science
- Landscape architecture
- Language arts, class subject
- Lanthanum, chemical element with symbol La
- Laser ablation
- Latin, ISO 639-1 language code
- Lawrence Academy at Groton, American boarding school
- Loyola Academy, American college preparatory high school
- Lewis acids and bases, literature abbreviation
- Linear algebra, branch of mathematics
- Linoleic acid, fatty acid
- Lipoic acid, organosulfur compound
- Lupus anticoagulant, autoimmune disorder
- Lauric acid, saturated fatty acid
- Local anesthetic
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Famous quotes containing the words education and, education and/or science:
“Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.”
—Jane Austen (1775–1817)
“Because of these convictions, I made a personal decision in the 1964 Presidential campaign to make education a fundamental issue and to put it high on the nation’s agenda. I proposed to act on my belief that regardless of a family’s financial condition, education should be available to every child in the United States—as much education as he could absorb.”
—Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)
“May we not assure ourselves that whatever woman’s thought and study shall embrace will thereby receive a new inspiration, that she will save science from materialism, and art from a gross realism; that the “eternal womanly shall lead upward and onward”?”
—Louisa Parsons Hopkins, U.S. scientist and author. As quoted in The Fair Women, ch. 16, by Jeanne Madeline Weimann (1981)