Girl Education Speech – 4

"Good Morning to all present here today on this very special day/occasion of —–I, am XYZ, student of class ___ or House ___________. I have selected the topic girl education to speech about here:

Imagine this world, full of halves – Half a flower, half a Sun, Half your favorite movie, half your face or even half your school. How would the world look? One word – Incomplete, so imperfect!

So how can we even think of sending half the children to school and the other half at home? Or keep half of yourself at home & the other half in the playground!! That is how defective it is, when we think of boys sent to school & girls being kept at home deprived of education.

Education is such a tool that makes you capable. It chisels out moral & intellectual advancement marked by refinement in taste and manners. In simpler words Education maketh a MAN. Women are born with a lot of those values, so I believe. So the effort to make the society a better place the presence of women in the society not just in the comfort of their homes but as an active and equal participant in building of a community; is a necessity. We want to see women at schools, teaching our children, we want to see them as nurses, we want to see them cleaning houses, or as cooks, maids, nannies, care takers, but how about seeing them in the forefront – as factory owners, business women, managers, Astronauts, Ministers, Breadwinners of their families…..

How will they achieve these goals if 75% of the population that resides in villages does not send their girl children to schools? There goes by our dream to see the buds bloom into gorgeous flowers, that don’t just beautify the world but also gives it happiness, color and vigor. The efficacy of creating a prosperous nation ceases. In India it is the mindset of the people that needs to be altered. We must focus upon the objective of modifying India from developing nation to DEVELOPED nation. Even God has giving the children same brain structure, same intelligence same learning and grasping abilities. The teachers who teach us, the schools we go in, whether in cities or in villages, do not differentiate or discriminate. Then who is stopping the girls from learning? Who should we term as our enemy? Let us understand our enemy first and then we will know how to win him/her. King Ashoka always used to identify the grit of his enemy.

“The great enemy of a person is often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent persuasive & unrealistic”, said John F Kennedy.

Malala Yousafzai of Pakistan is a well known face, not just in Pakistan, not in Asia, but the whole world knows her. She is one girl who stood firm against the few people who were armed with guns. All she wanted to do was to stand for what she believed was correct – education is a birth right of every human, irrespective of the gender. They fired at her. They tried to kill her. But she lived, not just to tell her story, but to remind us again and again the very importance of speaking up against those who want to stop the girls from learning, those who believe that girls are to be confined, girls have no freedom to decide what they desire.

This girl knew her enemy alright. She knew that the only one person to stop her from getting educated was herself. She has taught the world the power of believing in oneself and the power of standing by one’s belief. So it is of paramount importance to give our girls this sense of strength that they have within them. It is their belief, their ideology, their choice, decision to study and explore the wonderful world of books.

Then it is equally significant to educate the conservative and traditionalist families that reside in villages and small towns. Educate them that their girl child has equal right to study; go to school if there is one in their village. If not then, in today’s world that is structured around technology , it is extremely easy for them to provide education to not just their girls but themselves if they desire, for education & learning does not have an expiry date! It rather keeps you young and mentally constructively occupied. Our govt. not only has channels free of cost that at aired in the entire country, but they also provide education through open schools like SOL, IGNOU etc… Above all the government provides incentives like free education, school dress, mid-day meals to motivate children to go to school every day. A lot of schemes are there to support education in India. In fact if one wants one can learn various skills like computer software, programming, typing, tailoring etc in the skill development centers. There is very little or no cost attached to it.

So much is being done and so much more needs to be done. Educating the girl child is a journey that will lead us to a better community, and an efficient nation. In Michelle Obama’s words, “No country can truly flourish if it strifles the potential of its women and deprives itself of the contributions of half of its citizens”.

Thank you!
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