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In many countries, they do not even keep track of how girls are doing in school, or if they are there at all. If we say, 'Girls count,' then we must count girls, so we can see if we are really making progress in educating every girl.

— Malala Yousafzai

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

At any rate, girls are differently situated. Having no need of deep scientific knowledge, their education is confined more to the ordinary things of the world, the study of the fine arts, and of the manners and dispositions of people.

— William John Wills

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.

— Richard E. Robbins

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

— Alek Wek

In sub-Saharan Africa, fewer than 1 in 5 girls make it to secondary school.

— Nancy Gibbs

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.

— Karen DeCrow

It isn't often that the logic behind a policy is so clear. But when it comes to the value of educating girls, the evidence speaks for itself.

— Queen Rania of Jordan

One of the biggest development issues in the world is the education of girls. In the United States and Europe, it has been accepted, but not in Africa and the developing countries.

— Harri Holkeri

English girls' schools today providing the higher education are, so far as my knowledge goes, worthily representative of that astonishing rise in the intellectual standards of women which has taken place in the last half-century.

— Mary Augusta Ward

Girls are more academically powerful. They make the grades, they run the student activities, they are the valedictorians.

— Christina Hoff Sommers

✗Opposing Perspectives

We can no longer waste time and money. Every day, more than 2,000 girls in America, age 15-19, give birth - in the wealthiest, most educated nation in the world! Neither you nor I should accept this statistic.

— Jane Fonda