If you teach a boy, you educate an individual; but if you teach a girl, you educate a community.
Interpretation
Educating girls has a broader impact on society than educating boys.
This quote emphasizes the profound effect that educating girls has on a community compared to educating boys. It suggests that when girls are educated, they not only gain knowledge and skills for themselves, but they also uplift their families and communities, leading to societal improvements in health, economics, and overall well-being.
In practice
In a speech about the importance of girls' education at a conference.
Once you educate the boys, they tend to leave the villages and go search for work in the cities, but the girls stay home, become leaders in the community, and pass on what they've learned. If you really want to change a culture, to empower women, improve basic hygiene and health care, and fight high rates of infant mortality, the answer is to educate girls.
If you really want to change a culture to empower women improve basic hygiene and health care and fight high rates of infant mortality the answer is to educate girls.
You can hand out condoms, drop bombs, build roads, or put in electricity, but until the girls are educated a society won’t change.
If we try to resolve terrorism with military might and nothing else, then we will be no safer than we were before 9/11. If we truly want a legacy of peace for our children, we need to understand that this is a war that will ultimately be won with books, not with bombs.
In times of war, you often hear leaders—Christian, Jewish, and Muslim—saying, ‘God is on our side.’ But that isn’t true. In war, God is on the side of refugees, widows, and orphans.
Once you understand the foundations of cooking - whatever kind you like, whether it's French or Italian or Japanese - you really don't need a cookbook anymore.
Learning, while at school, that the charge for the education of girls was the same as that for boys, and that, when they became teachers, women received only half as much as men for their services, the injustice of this distinction was so apparent.
I read because one life isn't enough and in the pages of a book, I can be anybody.
I go to school, but I never learn what I want to know.
I hate books; they only teach people to talk about what they don't understand.
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