Articles and research correspondence from 1900 to 1980 assembled to figure out when Dr. Charles Duncan McIver may have first utter the famous phrase "If you educate a man and you educate an individual; if educate a woman, you educate a family" and determine its widespread use. Topics include a letter by Ms. Blanche Jantzen UNCG Special Collection Librarian to Ms. Marian Engel of the University of Alberta who used the quote in her novel "The Glassy Sea", an article "Charles Duncan McIver and His Educational Services, 1886-1946" by Charles L. Coon, and another article by "The Mountain Herald" quoting Dr. McIver's article from the "Southern Farm Magazine" a section of a 1971 issue of the Library Column noting how the quote was used in Ghana and multiple newspaper clips.
Charles Duncan McIver may have first utter the famous phrase "If you educate a man and you educate an individual; if educate a woman, you educate a family" and determine its widespread use.
It is captured in the often used quote from Mahatma Gandhi that: 'If you educate a man, you educate an individual; but if you educate a woman, you educate a nation'.
If you educate a man you educate an individual, but if you educate a woman you educate a family (nation). Explanation: This well-known saying is attributed to the Ghanaian scholar Dr. James Emmanuel Kwegyir-Aggrey (1875-1927), one of this century's greatest educators.
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