If you have no knowledge, have no education,
And you yearn not for the same,
You possess intellect but work not on the same,
How then can you be called a human being?
Birds, animals, monkeys, human beings too,
All go through life and death
But if you gain no knowledge about this,
How then can you be called a human being?
~ Savitribai Phule, Kavyaphule (1854)
