Trust your daughters, they are faithful. Honor your daughters, they are honorable. Educate your daughters, they are amazing.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the importance of trusting, honoring, and educating daughters, highlighting their inherent strengths and value.
Ziauddin Yousafzai's quote advocates for the recognition of daughters' capabilities and virtues. It calls for parents and society to trust their daughters, valuing their faithfulness, and honoring them for their honorable traits. Additionally, it underscores the necessity of providing them with an education, as it can unlock their potential and reveal their remarkable qualities. Ultimately, the quote implores us to foster an environment where daughters can thrive and be acknowledged for who they are.
In practice
During a women's empowerment seminar.
If you want to resolve a dispute or come out from conflict, the very first thing is to speak the truth. If you have a headache and tell the doctor you have a stomachache, how can the doctor help? You must speak the truth. The truth will abolish fear.
When the voice of truth rises from the minarets, the Buddha smiles, and the broken chain of history reconnects.
Honour your daughters, trust them and most importantly, educate them.
When in many societies, fathers are usually known by their sons, I am one of the few fathers who is known by his daughter, and I'm proud of it.
I did not clip the wings of my daughter to fly.
Education is not simply to learn to read and write. It's emancipation. It makes you free.
In the United States we have concentrated tremendous sums of money on the educational plant, seemingly with the idea that the right number of buildings will turn out the right number of graduates. Yet the teachers who actually instruct the future citizens of our country are more often than not miserably paid. If in the future we find ourselves with a lot of fourth-rate citizens, we have only ourselves to blame.
'Charlotte's Web,' which I read sitting on my mother's lap, was the most emotional experience: that was when I made the leap from seeing how to untangle words to realizing how books both contain and convey strong feelings.
When I was bringing up a child, I taught myself to write in very short, concentrated bursts. If I had a weekend, or a week, I'd do unbelievable amounts of work.
What could be more important than equipping the next generation with the character and competence they need to become successful
Besides language and music, it [mathematics] is one of the primary manifestations of the free creative power of the human mind, and it is the universal organ for world understanding through theoretical construction. Mathematics must therefore remain an essential element of the knowledge and abilities which we have to teach, of the culture we have to transmit, to the next generation.
All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.
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