I believe that if we want our children to understand the world beyond their classroom, we must bring the world into their classroom.
QUEEN RANIA OF JORDANGood teachers teach. Great teachers transform.
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By its very nature, hard-line ideology is self-serving and self-perpetuating; its primary goal is to survive – and that precludes everything.
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My role models are people who can do things; I say to myself, ‘I wish I could do that.’
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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.
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Being queen is overrated.
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I don’t know if I’d put labels on myself, but I do feel that when women are empowered, they have the power to transform society.
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Maybe clothes are a form of creative expression for me. An outlet. Because I don’t get to express myself creatively through my official duties.
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Religion and modernity are not necessarily mutually exclusive.
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There are so many misperceptions and stereotypes out there that I would love to see clarified one day.
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I don’t lose sleep over failures. I worry about the successes and how they can be replicated.
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I work in areas related to child protection and family safety, women’s empowerment, the creation of opportunities for youth, and culture and tourism. Daunting? Yes. Impossible? No. In fact, such challenges energize me.
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Social media are a catalyst for the advancement of everyone’s rights. It’s where we’re reminded that we’re all human and all equal. It’s where people can find and fight for a cause, global or local, popular or specialized, even when there are hundreds of miles between them.
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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.
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Learning to read and write changes lives; it means jobs, money, health, and dreams fulfilled.
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My position attracts a fair amount of rumors and gossip and misperceptions, but I’d rather not focus on that.
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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.
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