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.
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We are storytelling creatures, and as children we acquire language to tell those stories that we have inside us.
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We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet.
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Many books that tell you how to achieve come from a privileged position. If you can't see yourself in the advice, how can you use it?
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