We need another revolution in the Arab world. We need an education revolution. If there's one thing we need to focus on, it's redesigning our educational systems.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the urgent need for educational reform in the Arab world.
Queen Rania of Jordan advocates for a significant transformation in the educational systems of the Arab world. She believes that a revolution in education is essential to address the challenges and aspirations of the region, suggesting that improving how people learn and teach is critical to progress and development in society.
In practice
This quote could be used during a conference on educational reform in the Middle East.
Now and always, hard-line policy and those who embrace it are vessels for darker forces that are at once self-cannibalizing and combustible. No good can come of them. They are unsustainable because their sense of righteousness denies human worth.
If you educate a boy, you educate a person, but if you educate a girl, you educate a family and benefit an entire community.β An entire community - now that is really interesting! Then I found the quote changed a little more on the Kingdom of Jordan website by her Royal Majesty Queen Rania of Jordan during her interview with Oprah Winfrey. Queen Rania relates the quote in these words: βAs you educate a woman, you educate the family. If you educate the girls, you educate the future.
I found that being online has opened a window for me to look into other people's lives... The greatest fear that I have is losing touch.
I don't think people by nature are extremists. You will never find a population of extremists. Extremists have existed throughout the centuries on all religions. And what happens is, extremists start to have more leverage when the situation is bad.
I believe that if we want our children to understand the world beyond their classroom, we must bring the world into their classroom.
Being popular comes when you have everything. But to be liked, it means that you must be treating people with respect and you must be showing kindness toward them.
It is blessed to eat into the very soul of the Bible until the very essence of the Bible flows from you.
To implant fear in the minds of children is a crime. If parents try to rule the child by fear, then fear rules the child.
If someone has children, the first thing they want is for them to be happy, and then become someone in life and all that. But the educational system, I mean always, not just now, creates competitive, successful people, and does not educate them to be happy. The problem is that success gives money, not happiness. The eternal problem.
Across time and generations, books carry the thoughts and feelings, the essence, of the human spirit.
Whatever came to mind, whatever came to hand, I would read.
Surely, we've got a way that we can tinker with this system that shuttles our children from decrepit, underfunded schools to brand-new high-tech prisons.
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