On Educating Girls

   The Central Asia Institute is a school in Pakistan that strives to teach young children who are very poor, even including young girls. It was founded by Greg Mortensen who after meeting the native people on a trip promised to eventually come back and build a school for their children.  Today the school is thriving with numerous students and teachers working to better the quality of life in the region. Children from areas of Pakistan and Afghanistan come to the school to gain a basic education.
                In the video Greg says something that is very true, that no matter what else we try to do education is what helps change people for the better. Instead of trying to fight fire with fire in war, trying to install certain ideas, or donating things instead of trying to get to the root of the problem trying to educate the people will improve things over time for years to come. Without education the quality of living lowers and many people suffer when they don’t have to. Even if some men are educated it helps even probably twice as much if women are also allowed to learn as well. One thing that is good about education also is that it can be passed down to others, so in a way it can be infectious and spread into the population somewhat.
                Education is the key to fighting problems in many countries such as poverty, war and hostility, lack of government, and disease to some degree. In third world countries it is proven that educating some of the populations girls greatly affects GDP and population growth. Imagine if most or all of the worlds girls were given educations, the quality of many countries in the world would be tremendously better. Hopefully this is an issue that is looked into in the future because investing in the education of girls has already had surprising results in small areas.