Do as the Mooch says, not as she does.
Via The Hill:
Michelle Obama described education as a personal issue to her in an op-ed published Wednesday, ahead of the premiere of a CNN documentary that focuses on the first lady’s mission to ensure girls across the world get an education.
Barely anyone in the neighborhood she grew up in went to college, Obama wrote. But because of “hard work and plenty of financial aid,” she was able to get an education at top universities.
“For me, education was power,” Obama wrote in a piece published Wednesday on CNN.
“And a few years ago, when I had the honor of meeting Malala Yousafzai, who was shot in the head just for trying to go to school, this issue got really personal for me.”
Obama said the terrorists who shot Yousafzai, then 15, in her native Pakistan were “trying to silence her voice, snuff out her ambitions, and take away her power.”
That’s what prompted Obama to work on global girls’ education.
“Because right now, there are tens of millions of girls like Malala in every corner of the globe who are not in school — girls who are so bright, hardworking and hungry to learn,” Obama wrote.
“And that’s really the mission of the Let Girls Learn initiative we launched last year: It’s a global effort to give these girls the education they need to fulfill their potential and lift up their families, communities and countries.”