The Olinka girls do not believe girls should be educated. When I asked a mother why she thought this, she said: A girl is nothing to herself; only to her husband can she become something. What can she become? I asked. Why, she said, the mother of his children. But I am not the mother of anybody's children, I said, and I am something.

Don't be shy about making a teacher of any willing party who knows what he or she is doing.

Education is the key to unlocking the world, a passport to freedom.

Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day; teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime; give a man religion and he will die praying for a fish.

They are afraid of educated women. They are afraid of the power of knowledge.

When schools flourish, all flourishes.

Segregation shaped me education liberated me.

People say Malala's voice is being sold to the world. But I see it as Malala's voice reaching the world and resonating globally. You should think about what is behind Malala's voice. What is she saying? I am only talking about education, women's rights, and peace.

I think that education is a pathway out of poverty for many people. It was for our family.

the poor man, whom the law does not allow to take an ear of corn when starving, nor a pair of shoes for his freezing feet, is allowed to put his hand into the pocket of the rich, and say, You shall educate me, not as you will, but as I will...

Education is an asset no man can take away.