Boosting education will be a direct counterbalance to Boko Haram's appeal. In particular we must educate more young girls, ensuring they will grow up to be empowered through learning to play their full part as citizens of Nigeria and pull themselves up and out of poverty.
Interpretation
Improving education, especially for young girls, is essential to combat the influence of extremist groups like Boko Haram.
The quote emphasizes the critical role of education in countering the negative influence of extremist groups such as Boko Haram. It particularly highlights the importance of educating young girls, as empowerment through education enables them to become active, contributing citizens. By doing so, they can escape the cycle of poverty and improve their lives, which ultimately strengthens society as a whole.
In practice
This quote can be used in a speech at an educational institution to motivate students to value learning.
When my son, James, was doing homework for school, he would have five or six windows open on his computer, Instant Messenger was flashing continuously, his cell phone was constantly ringing, and he was downloading music and watching the TV over his shoulder. I don’t know if he was doing any homework, but he was running an empire as far as I could see, so I didn’t really care.
Don't be afraid! We won't make an author of you, while there's an honest trade to be learnt, or brick-making to turn to.
These words reveal the child’s inner needs; ‘Help me to do it alone’.
The great object of Education should be commensurate with the object of life. It should be a moral one; to teach self-trust: to inspire the youthful man with an interest in himself; with a curiosity touching his own nature; to acquaint him with the resources of his mind, and to teach him that there is all his strength.
You expect far too much of a first sentence. Think of it as analagous to a good country breakfast: what we want is something simple, but nourishing to the imagination. Hold the philosophy, hold the adjectives, just give us a plain subject and verb and perhaps a wholesome, nonfattening adverb or two.
Clever, but schoolteacher beat him anyway to show him that definitions belonged to the definers - not the defined.
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