When you educate a girl, you kick-start a cycle of success. It makes economic sense. It makes social sense. It makes moral sense. But, it seems, it's not common sense yet.
Interpretation
Educating girls leads to widespread benefits for society and the economy.
Queen Rania of Jordan emphasizes the profound impact of educating girls, highlighting that it not only drives individual success but also fosters economic growth, social progress, and moral responsibility. Despite these clear advantages, she points out the unfortunate reality that promoting girl education still lacks widespread common understanding and acceptance.
In practice
This quote can be used in a speech about the importance of 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.” 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.
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I always believed you could learn something from nearly everybody you meet, if you're open to it.
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