Alek Wek Quotes

When girls are educated, you get effects that cascade throughout society.

There is a reason you keep hearing about the power of educating girls in the developing world. It's a reason so simple that you will probably view it with suspicion, as I once did. It's this: educating girls works. Really works.

If you educate a man you educate a person. If you educate a woman you educate a family.

While the overall goal of any society must be to educate all its members, at this stage in human history the greatest need is to educate women and girls. For over twenty years, studies have consistently documented that, of all possible investments, educating women and girls pays the highest overall dividends in terms of social development, the eradication of poverty and the advancement of community.

By empowering a woman, we empower a child. By educating a girl child, we make it possible for her to grow up to become an empowered woman.

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

If you invest in a girl or a woman, you are investing in everybody else.

That's the beauty of education, kids taking lessons out of the classroom and back into their own world where they can positively affect their family, their friends, and their greater community.

Education is the only way forward in Latin America and developing countries in general.

But with the steady disintegration of the family in modern society over the last century, the role of the school in bridging the gap has become vital!

I decided in '96 to dedicate my life to mostly promoting literacy and education for girls in rural Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Educating our young girls is the foundation for Nigeria's growth and development.

Centuries have elapsed since schools were first established.... Because learning was viewed as the exclusive province of the samurai and his superiors, farmers, artisans, merchants and women have neglected it altogether.... There shall, in the future, be no community with an illiterate family, nor a family with an illiterate person .... Hereafter ... every man shall, of his own accord, subordinate all other matters to the education of his children.

In the long term, female education may be the best way to advance the status of women.

What would ultimately de-escalate the challenges of society would be for people to get educated, especially for more women to be educated because when more women are educated, they invest much more of their time and income in ensuring that the next generation would perform even more than they have done.

Those 62 million girls who are not being educated around the world impact my life in Washington, D.C., in the United States of America. Because if we aren't empowering and providing the skills and the resources to half of our population, then we're not realizing our full potential as a society, as mankind.

I believe education is much more important than we assume.

To my mind, the education of children - girl children, specifically - is what really creates an enlightened society. It creates a liberal society.

When you empower women and help them thrive, you help their communities thrive. Women shoulder the burden disproportionately.

I was very fortunate to be able to go to school and university, because many people our age couldn't complete school. This gift of education must be used in whatever ways we can to uplift the people.

If one man can destroy everything, why can't one girl change it?

When we invest in women and girls, we are investing in the people who invest in everyone else.

Once you have women liberated, it's amazing how many other problems get resolved--pover ty, education, health. Women are the key in any community.

You can hand out condoms, drop bombs, build roads, or put in electricity, but until the girls are educated a society won’t change.