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Education, doing homework, is the way to lift up girls. Around the world, where girls are educated, the economy and the standard of living rise.

If women's choices - such as taking time off to rear children - make them less productive in the economy, does adolescent boys' behavior in school make them even less so, because they are missing the educational potential of their formative years?

Everything has to do with education: If you educate the girls, you educate the family, the community, and society, in general.

The children of the unemployed achieve less in school and appear to have reduced long-term earnings prospects.

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

We can pay teachers a hundred thousand dollars a year, and we'll do nothing to improve our schools as long as we keep the A, B, C, D, F grading system.

Education does loads of things for girls that won't surprise you at all - it provides self-esteem, teaches important life skills, and offers the kinds of choices a good education can give anyone.

I believe that it is girls' human rights to go to school to be educated, minimum, until they are 18.

I think education is something that is very important no matter what you are doing. It makes you feel secure, independent, and helps you build confidence in yourself. It grooms your whole personality. So if it starts from the basic level; if the basic education that a girl and a boy receive is the same, I think a lot will change.

There is an outdated belief that girls are not as good at science and math subjects as boys. But according to the report 'Generation STEM,' high school girls earn more math and science credits than boys do, and their GPAs, aggregated across math and science classes, are higher than boys'.