As educated girls become women, they can transform local communities and act as role models for younger girls.
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
To the extent that we are all educated and informed, we will be more equipped to deal with the gut issues that tend to divide us.
Educated mothers are 50 percent more likely to immunize their children than mothers with no schooling.
My observation is that the bias against female child is deeply ingrained, especially in certain parts of India and that it's not just the poor or the uneducated who have this bias, the well-read and the well-to-do also share it.
There is no better form of trade a developing nation can engage in than to sell services provided by an educated population.