When children and youth are deprived of their right to education, their community is deprived of a sustainable future. It is all the more true with refugees.
Interpretation
Depriving children of education harms both them and their community's future.
This quote emphasizes that when children and youth are denied access to education, not only are their personal opportunities for growth and development stifled, but the broader community suffers as well. This impact is especially strong in the context of refugees, highlighting the importance of education in creating a sustainable future for individuals and societies alike.
In practice
This quote can be used in a speech advocating for educational rights for all children.
As human beings, we all have reasons for our behavior. There may be people who have certain physiological issues that dictate why they make certain choices. On the whole, though, I think we're dictated by our structure, our past, our environment, our culture. So once you understand the patterns that shape a person, how can you not find sympathy?
I think that cinema and the arts are central in our lives because we grow up and learn about the world through our exposure to stories. Parents use them as a tool to teach their children fundamental truths and values, much as adults can view them to gain exposure to cultures and individuals that they'd never be able to view in their own lives.
In some sense, when you take a child soldier out of an armed group, you've taken away the identity he or she has had for years, and you can't assume life is just going to return to normal.
Cinema and the arts invite viewers to focus on a story and, in doing so, peel away its layers and peer into the depths of the human soul.
I put down the camera long ago, you know? I was here in London, aged 19, and I was obsessed with my camera, shooting everything I could. Then someone stole it. It helped me to see things for the first time.
You try to pull away the experiences until you get to the core of humanity, and you find that light that exists in everybody. It's that light that I'm searching for in all of my work - is that connective thing, that ether that enters all of us - you know what I mean? That's a part of God.
Teachers and students (leadership and people), co-intent on reality, are both Subjects, not only in the task of unveiling that reality, and thereby coming to know it critically, but in the task of re-creating that knowledge. As they attain this knowledge of reality through common reflection and action, they discover themselves as its permanent re-creators.
Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.
Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.
No country can possibly move ahead, no free society can possibly be sustained, unless it has an educated citizenry whose qualities of mind and heart permit it to take part in the complicated and increasingly sophisticated decisions that pour not only upon the President and upon the Congress, but upon all the citizens who exercise the ultimate power.
I just love learning. I think learning is how you live. The verb of my life is learning.
Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.
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