The Importance of Female Child Education
About half the mankind consists of women but they continued to be treated as second sex all over the world. It’s a man's world everywhere. She continued to be play second fiddle to man economically; socially sexually they have been born to obey, to carry out orders. As mother, wife, and daughter-in fact, in any role she must have man's protection and without him she is nothing.
In Nigeria, large number of women is still steeped in ignorance, superstition, poverty and disease in spite of democracy and independence. Women in Nigeria are discriminated against not only in entering certain professional but also in continuing to work after marriage on grounds of domestic difficulties.
These things hurting every wise person, times have changed; the picture is no longer all that bleak.
Aristotle, the wise thinker had said that state is a "union of families and villages". Family is the basic unit of society, which is the foundation of state itself. Happy families create a healthy society and healthy society is a pre-requisite of strong political order in democratic societies.
A woman is an architect of society. She establishes the institution of family life, builds the home, brings up the children and makes them good citizens. Her strength in totality contributes in the making of an ideal family, ideal society and an ideal state.
"The reason so many experts believe educating girls is the most important investment in the world is how much they give back to their families," says Gene Sperling, a former top economic adviser to President Bill Clinton (and currently advising Barack Obama). Sperling's book, "What Works in Girls' Education" (with Barbara Herz), is simultaneously disturbing and encouraging. It's disheartening to think of how far we have to go to get all kids into school—one of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals launched in 2000 to accelerate progress on fighting poverty, disease and other social ills. But it's also hopeful: at least we can focus
In Nigeria, large number of women is still steeped in ignorance, superstition, poverty and disease in spite of democracy and independence. Women in Nigeria are discriminated against not only in entering certain professional but also in continuing to work after marriage on grounds of domestic difficulties.
These things hurting every wise person, times have changed; the picture is no longer all that bleak.
Aristotle, the wise thinker had said that state is a "union of families and villages". Family is the basic unit of society, which is the foundation of state itself. Happy families create a healthy society and healthy society is a pre-requisite of strong political order in democratic societies.
A woman is an architect of society. She establishes the institution of family life, builds the home, brings up the children and makes them good citizens. Her strength in totality contributes in the making of an ideal family, ideal society and an ideal state.
"The reason so many experts believe educating girls is the most important investment in the world is how much they give back to their families," says Gene Sperling, a former top economic adviser to President Bill Clinton (and currently advising Barack Obama). Sperling's book, "What Works in Girls' Education" (with Barbara Herz), is simultaneously disturbing and encouraging. It's disheartening to think of how far we have to go to get all kids into school—one of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals launched in 2000 to accelerate progress on fighting poverty, disease and other social ills. But it's also hopeful: at least we can focus