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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.

Population growth is straining the Earth's resources to the breaking point, and educating girls is the single most important factor in stabilizing that. That, plus helping women gain political and economic power and safeguarding their reproductive rights.

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

Because human development is the most specific and exalted mission of woman, studies in anthropology and theory of pedagogy are essential in girls' education.

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

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.

I have seen the transformative effect that education has in the lives of young women and their communities.

Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world.

Girls' education is no silver bullet. Iran and Saudi Arabia have both educated girls but refused to empower them, so both remain mired in the past. But when a country educates and unleashes women, those educated women often become force multipliers for good.

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.