Trust your daughters, they are faithful. Honor your daughters, they are honorable. Educate your daughters, they are amazing.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the importance of trusting, honoring, and educating daughters, highlighting their inherent strengths and value.
Ziauddin Yousafzai's quote advocates for the recognition of daughters' capabilities and virtues. It calls for parents and society to trust their daughters, valuing their faithfulness, and honoring them for their honorable traits. Additionally, it underscores the necessity of providing them with an education, as it can unlock their potential and reveal their remarkable qualities. Ultimately, the quote implores us to foster an environment where daughters can thrive and be acknowledged for who they are.
In practice
During a women's empowerment seminar.
If you want to resolve a dispute or come out from conflict, the very first thing is to speak the truth. If you have a headache and tell the doctor you have a stomachache, how can the doctor help? You must speak the truth. The truth will abolish fear.
When the voice of truth rises from the minarets, the Buddha smiles, and the broken chain of history reconnects.
Honour your daughters, trust them and most importantly, educate them.
When in many societies, fathers are usually known by their sons, I am one of the few fathers who is known by his daughter, and I'm proud of it.
I did not clip the wings of my daughter to fly.
Education is not simply to learn to read and write. It's emancipation. It makes you free.
Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves
Sloppy language and sloppy ways go together. Those who are truly educated have learned more than the sciences, the humanities, law, engineering, and the arts. They carry with them a certain polish that marks them as loving the better qualities of life, a culture that adds luster to the mundane world of which they are apart, a patina that puts a quiet glow on what otherwise might be base metal.
If you want grown-ups to recycle, just tell their kids the importance of recycling, and they'll be all over it.
Anyway -- because we are readers, we don't have to wait for some communications executive to decide what we should think about next -- and how we should think about it. We can fill our heads with anything from aardvarks to zucchinis -- at any time of night or day.
In the field of higher ed, many have asked whether (or when) digital education will replace on-campus education. I wonder the opposite. Cinema never replaced theatre. TV didn't replace radio. I wonder how different digital education will be from classrooms, and where it will lead us.
Without education, we are weaker economically. Without economic power, we are weaker in terms of national security. No great military power has ever remained so without great economic power.
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