Marriage can wait, education cannot.
Interpretation
Education is a priority that should be pursued before marriage.
This quote emphasizes the importance of education as a foundational aspect of life that should be prioritized over societal expectations such as marriage. Khaled Hosseini suggests that acquiring knowledge and skills is essential for personal development and future opportunities, indicating that once education is completed, other aspects of life, like marriage, can be pursued without hindrance.
In practice
During a graduation speech to emphasize the importance of pursuing education.
You're gutless. It's how you were made. And that's not such a bad thing because your saving grace is that you've never lied to yourself about it. Not about that. Nothing wrong with cowardice as long as it comes with prudence. But when a coward stops remembering who he is... God help him.
There was brotherhood between people who had fed from the same breast, a kinship that even time could not break. - Amir
I don't outline at all; I don't find it useful, and I don't like the way it boxes me in. I like the element of surprise and spontaneity, of letting the story find its own way.
And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.
Perspective [is] a luxury when your head [is] constantly buzzing with a swarm of demons.
The desert weed lives on, but the flower of spring blooms and wilts.
Although the teachers or the students are not the same, the person in charge of education is being formed or re-formed as he/she teaches, and the person who is being taught forms him/herself in the process. ...There is, in fact, no teaching without learning.
A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.
Schools connect children to their communities. Jobs connect adults to their societies. Persons with autism deserve to walk the same path.
Come then, and let us pass a leisure hour in storytelling, and our story shall be the education of our heroes.
Knowledge is and will be produced in order to be sold, it is and will be consumed in order to be valorised in a new production: in both cases, the goal is exchange
Let us recommit to supporting every girl to develop her skills, enter the workforce on equal terms, and reach her full potential.
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