Education encourages a child to believe that they are allowed to dream, explore and choose.
In countries where daughters are not given this simple yet fundamental right, we end up with nations of girls growing up into women that never rise to their potential and men believing they have the right to shut down even just the spark of a dream in a girl.
wings of a bird, allow a bird to BE
but what comes of a bird that cannot fly?
what is the purpose, if it has no wings?
a bird without wings, will never know its own ability to explore the heights of the sky
a bird without wings cannot stand against the current of the wind, or feel empowered to ride along with it.
a bird without wings will never go where the other birds have been,
but a bird without wings, is still a bird.
A girl without an education or the permission to dream is still a girl, but she will never know what could have been or where she could have gone.
In order to flourish, she needs room to grow.
Malala's father Ziauddin Yousafzai from his TED talk: “Dear brothers and sisters,” he ends, “We learn from her how to be resilient in the most difficult times … Despite being an icon for the rights of children and women, she is like any 16- year-old girl … People ask me what is special about my mentorship that has made Malala so bold and courageous, vocal and poised. I tell them, ‘Don’t ask me what I did. Ask me what I did not do. I did not clip her wings, and that’s all.”
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