Look at any country that's plagued with poverty, disease or violence; the antidote is girls. Girls are the antibodies to many of society's ills.
Interpretation
Investing in girls' education and empowerment can significantly improve societal issues.
Queen Rania of Jordan highlights the crucial role that girls play in combating societal problems such as poverty, disease, and violence. By empowering girls through education and support, societies can foster healthier, more prosperous communities, as girls often contribute significantly to social change and development.
In practice
This quote could be used in a speech advocating for gender equality in education.
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.
Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.
Read to your children all of the time_x000D_ Novels and nursery rhymes_x000D_ Autobiographies, even the newspaper_x000D_ It doesn't mater; it's quality time_x000D_ Because once upon a time _x000D_ We grew up on stories in the voices in which they were told _x000D_ We need words to hold us and the world to behold us _x000D_ For us to truly know our souls
Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.
Something stopped me in school a little bit. Anything that I'm not interested in, I can't even feign interest.
Our youth should also be educated with music and physical education.
Books are slow, books are quiet. The Internet is fast and loud.
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