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Younghusband
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Younghusband

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January 22nd, 2010

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Educate a boy and you educate only that boy, educate a girl and you educate her entire family.

— Sign in a new school for girls in Afghanistan, as reported by Irshad Manji in a speech at Tufts University, March 30, 2005 (cf. Breaking the Spell, pp. 411)

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Peter
January 25, 2010
4:43 am
I think that, from what I've noticed here, this aphorism is as true in Japan as it is in Afghanistan.
RJS
January 27, 2010
3:55 pm
Sounds sexist.