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  • The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.

    Harriet Martineau (1837). “Society in America”, p.158
  • Bombay is far ahead of Bengal in the matter of female education. I have visited some of the best schools in Bengal and Bombay, and I can say from my own experience that there are a larger number of girls receiving public education in Bombay than in Bengal; but while Bengal has not come up to Bombay as far as regarded extent of education, Bengal is not behind Bombay in the matter of solidarity and depth.

    Girl   School   Numbers  
    Speech delivered at the East India Association, London, May 13, 1870.
  • The true aim of female education should be, not a development of one or two, but all the faculties of the human soul, because no perfect womanhood is developed by imperfect culture.

    Two   Perfect   Soul  
    Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Frances Smith Foster (1990). “A Brighter Coming Day: A Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Reader”, p.109, Feminist Press at CUNY
  • The highest result of education is tolerance.

    Helen Keller (2012). “The World I Live In and Optimism: A Collection of Essays”, p.99, Courier Corporation
  • Weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage was born.

    "Malala Up Close: A Heroine And A Joking Teenager". "Morning Edition" with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. October 2, 2015.
  • In light of the strong correlation between female education and demographic decline, a purely empirical perspective on Malala Yousafzai, the poster girl for global female education, may indicate that the Taliban's attempt to silence her was perfectly rational and scientifically justifiable.

    Girl   Strong   Light  
  • I speak not for myself, but so those without a voice can be heard. Those who have fought for their rights. Their right to live in peace. Their right to be treated with dignity. Their right to equality of opportunity. Their right to be educated.

    Malala Yousafzai's Speech to the UN General Assembly, www.independent.co.uk. July 12, 2013.
  • To be able to be caught up into the world of thought-that is educated.

    Quoted in the Saturday Evening Post, 27 Sep 1958.
  • The goal of female education must invariably be the future mother.

    Mother   History   Goal  
    Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • ... the whole tenour of female education ... tends to render the best disposed romantic and inconstant; and the remainder vain and mean.

    Mary Wollstonecraft (1997). “The Vindications: The Rights of Men and The Rights of Woman”, p.194, Broadview Press
  • The terrorists thought they would change my aims and stop my ambitions. But nothing changed in my life except this: weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage was born.

    "Malala Yousafzai: 'Our books and our pens are the most powerful weapons'". Speech at the United Nations, www.theguardian.com. July 12, 2013.
  • Female education ... has occupied my attention so far only as the education of my own daughters ... I thought it essential to give them a solid education which might enable them, when become mothers, to educate their own daughters, and even to direct the course for sons, should their fathers be.

    Thomas Jefferson, Jean M. Yarbrough (1963). “The Essential Jefferson”, p.247, Hackett Publishing
  • Even in areas like the most depressed region of India in terms of female education, namely Rajasthan, which has [one of] the lowest female literacy [rates] in India. Even there, 80 to 90 percent of the parents would like their girls to go to school. And indeed, about 80 percent would like them to be made compulsory.

    Girl   School   Parent  
    Source: www.pbs.org
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