Female Education Quotes

• 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

  Inspiring, Opportunity, Equality

  Discurso de Malala Yousafzai ante la Asamblea General de la ONU, www.independent.co.uk. 12 th Of July de 2013.

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• El resultado más elevado de la educación es la tolerancia.

  Helen Keller

  Perdón, Educación, Profesor

  Helen Keller (2012). "El mundo en que vivo y el optimismo: Una colección de ensayos", p.99, Courier Corporation.

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• 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

  Inspiración, Motivación, Suicidio

  Malala Yousafzai: "Nuestros libros y nuestras plumas son las armas más poderosas". Discurso en las Naciones Unidas, www.theguardian.com. 12 th Of July de 2013.

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• Weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage was born.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Weakness, Hopelessness, Born

  "Malala Up Close: A Heroine And A Joking Teenager". "Morning Edition" with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. October 2, 2015.

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• The goal of female education must invariably be the future mother.

  Adolf Hitler

  Mother, History, Goal

  Adolf Hitler (1998). "Mein Kampf", Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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.

  Frances Harper

  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

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• La educación femenina ... ha ocupado mi atención hasta ahora sólo como la educación de mis propias hijas ... Pensé que era esencial darles una educación sólida que les permitiera, cuando fueran madres, educar a sus propias hijas, e incluso dirigir el curso de los hijos varones, en caso de que lo fueran sus padres.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Daughter, Mother, Educational

  Thomas Jefferson, Jean M. Yarbrough (1963). “The Essential Jefferson”, p.247, Hackett Publishing

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• To be able to be caught up into the world of thought-that is educated.

  Edith Hamilton

  Education, Learning, Curiosity

  Quoted in the Saturday Evening Post, 27 Sep 1958.

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• 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.

  Keshub Chandra Sen

  Girl, School, Numbers

  Speech delivered at the East India Association, London, May 13, 1870.

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• 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.

  Amartya Sen

  Niña, Escuela, Padre

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

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• ... the whole tenour of female education ... tends to render the best disposed romantic and inconstant; and the remainder vain and mean.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Romantic, Education, Mean

  Mary Wollstonecraft (1997). “The Vindications: The Rights of Men and The Rights of Woman”, p.194, Broadview Press

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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

  Thinking, America, Training

  Harriet Martineau (1837). “Society in America”, p.158

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• 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.

  Theodore Beale

  Girl, Strong, Light

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