Malala Yousafzai Quotes

Education is very important to me, as is helping children.

Parents have a right to know whether their children are mastering the basics.

I'm literate, and the idea of leaving children illiterate is criminal.

One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.

Without education, your children can never really meet the challenges they will face. So it's very important to give children education and explain that they should play a role for their country.

Maybe it's a tired tale, but without an education, you're not going to go anywhere.

You don't need a city charter to know that education is the foundation of any community.

I feel sorry for the poor kids whose parents feel they're qualified to teach them at home. Of course, some parents are smarter than some teachers, but in the main I see home-schooling as misguided foolishness.

Education is key. I graduated from high school; everyone needs to.

Kids would never care about going to school unless your mama and daddy instilled into your head and explained to you that you need this thing to live.

Promoting education is an effort that is close to my heart. Illiteracy contributes to poverty; encouraging children to pick up a book is fundamental.

A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them.

I give the children education.

My kids have grown up knowing that their mom made a big investment in making sure there was art and language instruction in school and books in the library. Hopefully, they've internalized that.

No society has ever been great that didn't honor and foster learning.

I would stand at the cradle of every colored boy and girl in the land and bid them to awake from their slumber, put on their clothes and shoes, prepare their toilet, eat an early breakfast, throw their satchel of books on their shoulders and hasten to the school house and remain until they have secured a parchment of graduation

I maintain that the civil authorities are under obligation to compel the people to send their children to school. ... If the government can compel such citizens as are fit for military service to bear spear and rifle, to mount ramparts, and perform other martial duties in time of war, how much more has it a right to compel the people to send their children to school?

The fundamental purpose of schools is to grow adults.

For many children, the library represents their only access to books, reading, and the Internet outside of their home. If you think about how far behind a child would be without access to these fundamental tools - tools that are vital to successful employment later in life - it's a travesty.

My mission is to put a book in every child's hand.

All children everywhere deserve the opportunity that is unlocked for them by education.

Everybody can't be Lil Wayne. Some of us have to pick up a book.

The first thing I remember when I moved to a school in the suburbs was, 'My gosh, all these books!' The classroom and school had a library; I'd never seen so many books in my life! It was something we didn't have in the township.

I suggest school buses make stops at local libraries so that children who do not have resources like books at home can get access.

I just wanted to have an education.