Educating all of the Ritas - what does the Bible say about educating women?

Elaine Storkey takes a close look at what the Bible has to say about educating women, and delves deep into the often quoted 1 Timothy 2

Study passages: 1 Timothy 2:8-15

Religious attitudes to women’s education have been contentious in cultures through the ages. Twelve years ago, teenager Malala Yousafzai was shot for opposing the Taliban’s restrictions on women’s education in Pakistan, her home country. For three years she’d written a pseudonym blog about girls and studying, alerting people to increasing local military activity and threats to her school (over 100 girls’ schools were blown up by the militia). She appeared on podcasts, made films in Urdu about girls’ education, and was interviewed by the BBC. Once her cover was blown, however, she became a target and the Taliban hunted her. The fact that a young, educated, peace-loving teenage girl was able to challenge a repressive, armed regime was too much for them. After the assassination attempt, she was flown to the UK for surgery. Thankfully she survived to continue her campaign from Birmingham and then Oxford. In December 2014, she became the youngest person ever to receive the Nobel Peace Prize.