Educate A Girl, Change The World

If you educate a man you educate an individual but if you educate a woman you educate a family is a famous quote by Bringham Young, a religious preacher from US and is also African proverb. This shows the basic idea behind the usefulness of educating a woman is realized across continents and its benefits are realized across globe

- Vibha Singh

Women can never see her children go uneducated. She will be most insistent upon sending her children to school be it even at the cost of her hobbies, interests or even stomach. This is because she appreciates the importance of education. So with an educated mother, we ‘can safely assume that we have most effective motivator for the spread of education. The so-called’ Filtration theory’ fits very well into it. If we teach a woman, she acts as a filter to spread education among many others. Woman belongs to a weaker section of the society because she suffers from many handicaps due to rigid, outdated social customs and religious practices. But an educated woman cannot be exploited easily. She is aware of her rights and will go any length to defend them. Having experienced problems herself, she understands the difficulties faced by other women. She is therefore more sympathetic to their cause.

Also, with the armor of education around her, she acts as a way a ‘motivator and a leader of the movements to remove social malaise from the society. She can share very intimate relationship with other women and therefore, promote them to voice their grievances. She then acts as a carrier of their aspirations and lets the people in power know it. Having studied history and politics herself, she understands the power of unity. So she can act as the force to unify the unprivileged section of the society and’ then force leaders to accede to its demands. Of course, she acts as a grand role model for other women to follow.