“If you teach a boy, you educate an individual; but if you teach a girl, you educate a community.”

“Educate a boy, and you educate an individual. Educate a girl, and you educate a community.”

“The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.”

“Teaching kids how to feed themselves and how to live in a community responsibly is the center of an education.”

“No one is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them. Nobody is going to teach you your true history, teach you your true heroes, if they know that that knowledge will help set you free.”

“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.”