The Importance of Educating Girls

...The great value of the education of girls...life itself has shown the importance of this thing, and especially in these days of destruction and the necessity of the matter in new places and in completely new and foreign conditions, that the preservation of the...tradition of the ancestors demands special effort on the part of all the household members and the command of the head of the household alone is not at all sufficient.

And our Sages said...that at the Giving of the Torah there needed to be first saying to the women and afterwards to the men and then the Torah lasts. And the lesson for the generations is understood...

(From a letter of the Lubavitcher Rebbe King Moshiach Shlita, printed in Likkutei Sichos vol. 11, pg. 253)