Gender Equality in Education Quotes

Equity knows no difference of sex. In its vocabulary the word man must be understood in a generic, and not in a specific sense

Across the world, in Africa, Asia, Latin America, everywhere, there is a widespread recognition on the part of the parents, too, that the children's life will go much better by being educated. And that applies to girls as well as boys.

The way women today are treated in Saudi Arabia is a direct result of the education our children, boys and girls, receive at school.

The result of coeducation shows clearly that there is no mental inferiority on the part of girls.

In carrying out the work of female education great impediments, some of them of an almost insuperable character, had to be overcome, and many defects had to be rectified

It is my vision that we all will dedicate the next decade to achieve universal literacy and education for all children, especially for girls. More than 145 million of the world's children are deprived of education due to poverty, exploitation, slavery, gender discrimination, religious extremism, and corrupt governments. May Three Cups of Tea be a catalyst to bring the gift of literacy to each of those children who deserves a chance to go to school.

If there was anyone primed to raise their kids feminist, it was me. My parents treated me no differently from my brother. I was raised to believe I was capable of doing anything I set my mind to.

Feminism is equality: politically; culturally; socially; economically. That's it, that simple.

When people say to me, 'Why are you so good at writing at women?' I say, 'Why isn't everybody?'

... our scholarships should be bestowed on those whose ability and earnestness in the primary department have been proved, and whose capacity for a higher education is fully shown. This is the best work women of wealth can do, and I hope in the future they will endow scholarships for their own sex instead of giving millions of dollars to institutions for boys, as they have done in the past.

Education had been a great gift for him [Ziauddin]. He believed that lack of education was the root of all the Pakistan's problems. Ignorance allowed politicians to fool people and bad administrators to be reelected. He believed schooling should be available for all, rich and poor, boys and girls.

Canada knows that for a society to be prosperous and more just and more peaceful, women and girls must be educated.

I'd like to see where boys and girls end up if they get equal encouragement - I think we might have some differences in how leadership is done.

I don't make a distinction between men and women. To me they are just people.

I could do whatever I wanted as a girl, whatever my brother did. I could play against the boys and achieve whatever they did.

Gender is irrelevant. Certainly the tennis ball doesn't know what the gender was of the tennis coach.

It's true that, in Iran, women have half of the rights men do. And yet 66 per cent of students are women.

Women while in college ought to have the broadest possible education. This college education should be the same as men's, not only because there is but one best education, but because men's and women's effectiveness and happiness and the welfare of the generation to come after them will be vastly increased if their college education has given them the same intellectual training and the same scholarly and moral ideals.

There was never a perception that I was second-class relative to boys. That gave me confidence.

I am fortunate that I come from a family that never distinguished between a boy and a girl. I had the freedom to chose my entire life and have been supported throughout by my family.

The future must not belong to those who bully women. It must be shaped by girls who go to school and those who stand for a world where our daughters can live their dreams just like our sons.

Fraulein Noether was the most significant creative mathematical genius thus far produced since the higher education of women began.

There are two ways to handle a woman, and nobody knows either of them.

On one hand, my gender has never been an issue. The issue has always been what's on the page. But the reality is, an awful lot of women fought an awful lot of battles to get me to that place.

Girls could do most things as well as boys, and some things better.