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.
The humanities are like the great old Paris Flea Market where, amidst masses of junk, people with a good eye found cast away treasures...They are like a refugee camp where all the geniuses driven out of their jobs and countries by unfriendly regimes are idling.
Language is more fashion than science, and matters of usage, spelling and pronunciation tend to wander around like hemlines.
If, then, you wish to insure the interest of your pupils, there is only one way to do it; and that is to make certain that they have something in their minds to attend with, when you begin to talk. That something can consist in nothing but a previous lot of ideas already interesting in themselves, and of such a nature that the incoming novel objects which you present can dovetail into them and form with them some kind of a logically associated or systematic whole.
All provisions of federal, state or local law requiring or permitting discrimination in public education must yield.
When I was going for my graduate degree, I decided I was going to make a feature film as my thesis. That's what I was famous for-that I had my thesis film be a feature film, which was 'You're a Big Boy Now.'
Denying a child even at birth an opportunity for the full expression of its innate genetic potential for physical and mental development is the cruellest form of inequity.
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