--- title: "6 Educated Girls Quotes by 6 authors" description: "Browse 6 Educated Girls quotes by 6 authors. Discover the best Educated Girls sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4cb/barbara-crossette-51833_birth_in-the-south-of-india-they-educated-girl_241497.jpg" --- > [In the south of India, they educated girls. Three things came together in southern India that are unbelievably coincidental. There, the local…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barbara-crossette/in-the-south-of-india-they-educated-girls-three-things-came-together/) [Barbara Crossette](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barbara-crossette/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4cb/barbara-crossette-51833_birth_in-the-south-of-india-they-educated-girl_241497.jpg) > [Girls' education is no silver bullet. Iran and Saudi Arabia have both educated girls but refused to empower them, so both remain…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicholas-kristof/girls-education-is-no-silver-bullet-iran-and-saudi-arabia-have-both/) [Nicholas Kristof](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicholas-kristof/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8cf/nicholas-kristof-6723_educated-women_girls-education-is-no-silver-bullet-iran_647803.jpg) > [“Social science now tells us that if we can take indigent girls between the ages of 10 and 14 and give them…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-gilbert/social-science-now-tells-us-that-if-we-can-take-indigent-girls/) [Elizabeth Gilbert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-gilbert/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/89b/elizabeth-gilbert-131_child-labor_social-science-now-tells-us-that-if-we-c_1441163.jpg) > [It's no accident that the countries that have enjoyed an economic take off have been those that educated girls and then gave…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sheryl-wudunn/it-s-no-accident-that-the-countries-that-have-enjoyed-an-economic/) [Sheryl WuDunn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sheryl-wudunn/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5a8/sheryl-wudunn-29981_accidents_it-s-no-accident-that-the-countries-that_2688473.png) > [As educated girls become women, they can transform local communities and act as role models for younger girls.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tae-yoo/as-educated-girls-become-women-they-can-transform-local-communities/) [Tae Yoo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tae-yoo/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9ae/tae-yoo-8433_become_as-educated-girls-become-women-they-can_2760780.jpg) > [The real difficulty is that people have no idea of what education truly is. We assess the value of education in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mahatma-gandhi/the-real-difficulty-is-that-people-have-no-idea-of-what-education/) [Mahatma Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mahatma-gandhi/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/29f/mahatma-gandhi-23_character_the-real-difficulty-is-that-people-have_3124691.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/educated-girls/#itemlist", "name": "Educated Girls Quotes", "numberOfItems": 6, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "In the south of India, they educated girls. Three things came together in southern India that are unbelievably coincidental. There, the local Maharajas believed in education for everybody. The Syrian Catholic Church built schools for boys and girls. And then the Communist party, which took over politics for a period of time, had very strong social policies that benefited women. As a result, girls got into school. It was the first part of the country where towns could claim to be 100 percent literate. 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Educated girls, as former World Bank official Barbara Herz has written, tend to insist that their children be educated. And when a nation has smaller, healthier, better-educated families, economic productivity shoots up, environmental pressures ease, and everyone is better-off. As Lawrence Summers, a former Harvard University president, put it: “Educating girls may be the single highest return investment available in the developing world.” Why is that? 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