"When you educate a girl, you begin..." - Quote by Oprah Winfrey
When you educate a girl, you begin to change the face of a nation.
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“Don't put a ceiling on yourself.”
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“Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us. Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.”
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“Tell people - and they may forget...show them - they may remember...but involve them and they will understand.”
“We should seek to be fellow students with the pupil, and should learn of, as well as with him, if we would be most helpful to him.”
“Every age has its own outlook. It is specially good at seeing certain truths and specially liable to make certain mistakes. We all, therefore, need the books that will correct the characteristic mistake of our own period. And that means the old books.”
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“Education is an important element in the struggle for human rights. It is the means to help our children and thereby increase self-respect. Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.”
“So over you is the greatest enemy a man can have — and that is fear. I know some of you are afraid to listen to the truth — you have been raised on fear and lies. But I am going to preach to you the truth until you are free of that fear...”
“Then you came along and helped me believe in myself again.”