US first lady advices: Education is the ultimate key to success

Portia Arthur

June 16, 2015 12:26 PM

Michelle Obama said the world needs "more girls like you to lead our parliaments, our courtrooms and universities" while addressing the pupils

Michelle Obama

Mrs Obama, wife of President Barack, speaking at Mulberry School of Girls as part her Let Girls Learn initiative campaign, shetold the pupils that their "amazing education" can them all they need to fulfil their dreams.

Michelle Obama said the world needs "more girls like you to lead our parliaments, our courtrooms and universities".

"With an education from this amazing school you all have everything, everything you need to rise above all of the noise and fulfil every last one of your dreams," she said.

She added, "And it is so important that you do that, not just for yourselves but for all of us."Because you all have a unique perspective, you have a unique voice to add to the conversation".

Mrs Obama said figures which suggested more than 62 million girls across the world did not go to school were "a heartbreaking injustice".

Michelle Obama added, forced marriages, early pregnancies, abuse and sexism were some of the obstacles to education faced by girls around the world. "That kind of life is unthinkable for the girls in our lives, so why would we accept this fate for any girl on this planet?" she wrote.

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Portia Arthur