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.” 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: “As 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.
We live in a moment and a culture when reading is really endangered. There's simply no way to write well, though, if you're not reading well.
If you get down about the state of American culture, just remember there are still more public libraries in this country than there are McDonalds.
Children, after all, are not just adults-in-the-making. They are people whose current needs and rights and experiences must be taken seriously.
I read Carver. Julio Cortázar. Amis's essays. Baldwin. Lorrie Moore. Capote. Saramago. Larkin. Wodehouse. Anything, anything at all, that doesn't sound like me.
To students: I pray that all those young people who have graduated, do not carry just a piece of paper with them but that they carry with them love, peace and joy. That they become the sunshine of God's love to our people, the hope of eternal happiness and the burning flame of love wherever they go. That they become carriers of God's love. That they be able to give what they have received. For they have received not to keep, but to share.
I see journalists as the manual workers, the laborers of the word. Journalism can only be literature when it is passionate.
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