“All people need to know how AIDS is transmitted, and every country has an obligation to educate its citizens. This is why every country must also improve literacy, especially for women and girls, so that they can make wise choices that will keep them healthy and safe.” PeopleKnowsNeedsCountryChoicesGirlKnow HowWiseCitizensHealthySafeAidsObligationEducateLiteracyWise Choices Author:Laura Bush
“I think I should know how to educate a boy, but not a girl; I should be in danger of making her too learned.” ThinkingKnowsShouldGirlEducationBoysKnow HowDangerEducate Author:Reinhold Niebuhr
“I am very grateful for the success, because it has given me the freedom to write without pressure, in my own way, and has enabled me to maintain my family and educate my children and grandchildren, as well as to create a Foundation to empower women and girls.” WayWritingWellsChildrenGirlGivenMy OwnMy FamilyPressureFoundationGratefulMy ChildrenEmpoweringEducateGrandchildrenEmpowering WomenChildren And Grandchildren Author:Isabel Allende
“When you educate a girl, you kick-start a cycle of success. It makes economic sense. It makes social sense. It makes moral sense. But, it seems, it's not common sense yet.” SeemsGirlSocialCommonMoralEconomicCommon SenseKicksCyclesEducate Author:Queen Rania of Jordan
“If I had the choice of educating a boy or a girl, I would educate the girl. If you educate a boy, you educate one, but if you educate a girl, you educate a generation.” IfsChoicesGirlBoysGenerationsEducate Author:Brigham Young
“The aim of education is to fit children for the position in life which they are hereafter to occupy. Boys are to be sent out intothe world to buffet with its temptations, to mingle with bad and good, to govern and direct.... girls are to dwell in quiet homes, amongst a few friends; to exercise a noiseless influence, to be submissive and retiring. There is no connection between the bustling mill-wheel life of a large school and that for which they are supposed to be preparing.... to educate girls in crowds is to educate them wrongly.” WorldChildrenHomeSchoolGirlBoysInfluencePositionFitExerciseQuietDirectConnectionsAimCrowdsTemptationSupposed To BeWheelsRetiringEducatePreparingHereafterMillsBuffetsSubmissiveFew FriendsAim Of Education Author:Elizabeth Missing Sewell