Hossam Badrawi Official Website
Dear student councils representatives
Today’s students need to master seven survival skills to thrive in the new world of work. And these skills are the same ones that will enable students to become productive citizens who contribute to solving some of the most pressing issues we face in the 21st century.
- Critical Thinking and Problem Solving
- Collaboration and Leadership
- Agility and Adaptability
- Initiative and Entrepreneurialism
- Effective Oral and Written Communication
- Accessing and Analyzing Information
- Curiosity and Imagination
You are given abundant opportunities to groom yourselves and learn about the world during your academic life.
In my opinion , The student council is one such opportunity given to students to learn the skills of leadership during high school and college.
Leadership skills help you in several ways and are essential for you to deal with your peers during your academic years and in your practical life as well.
A few key advantages of promoting leadership through a student council for are:
1-Team Building
This is one of the most essential skills that students learn by being a part of the student council. Being leaders of certain groups and societies,
i am sure you would nod not miss learning to establish goals, delegate responsibility and give directions to your peers on executing tasks successfully.
I also would stress the importance to learn the skill of interactive and effective communication and become good listeners.
In you future life you should be flexible and it is now the time to obtain the skills to mentor groups of your fellow students to perform to their optimum capacity.
This is an important learning and practical experience for your future.
2-Resource Utilization
Being in a Student Council, you should be learning innumerable skills including those of resource allocation and resource utilization.
Utilization of resources is one of the key skills that, if learnt correctly, will help you lead efficiently.
Such skills help you utilize the resources available to your council in the best possible manner to achieve maximum results.
3-Prioritizing Tasks
Being in a position of leadership can teach you to take on multiple responsibilities.
However, all tasks are not urgent or require immediate attention
You must learn how to prioritize tasks according to their importance and need for immediate attention.
To be able to prioritize, a person must have a clear vision and knowledge of their goals. This will enable you to effectively prioritize in terms of time, man power and resources required for each task.
4-Confidence Building
As a student leader, i am sure you get ample opportunities to speak out in public and communicate with large groups of audiences.
Every one of you should get the opportunity to be responsible for leading task forces and managing groups of people.
You are also supposed to take certain risks as well as make important decisions.
You have to stand firm in difficult times.
All of this helps you built your self confidence and makes you able to take on tough challenges with determination.
5-Making a Difference
Many students in leading positions know that their actions and decisions can make a difference. This inspires them to be more proactive and alters their attitude towards their work and their life.
They are dedicated to bring change and work passionately to make a difference in the world and in the life of others.
This dedication and the determination to make a difference stays with you throughout your
life pushing you forward and helping you to change the world with your actions.
I believe your student councils life are part of these 21st century skills needed in civic education , as part of learning and practicing democracy , and building leadership qualities
It concerns me in this particular moment is that you are perceived by the society as ellite schools for ellite sector of the society.
I am not sure if this is good or bad, however you live in Egypt , you belong to this part of the world and you cannot just exclude yourselves from the society you live in .
Coming to you I thought of 3 messages.
One of them is being delivered , the second one is an overview of the whole education system in Egypt so you realize the privilege you have and to open your minds to a wider scope of future collaboration.
The third one is how do you fit as council in the democratic build up of you country , which poses number of questions i would like to leave with you to think about.
You may ask me why is that relevant to me
The butterfly effect???
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علاقه اتحاد الطلاب بطريقه تكوين برلمان البلاد
من هم برلمان المدرسه
اتحاد الطلاب تعليم مدني
ما هو الهدف الرئيسي من تكوينه ان لم يرتبط ويناقش اهدافه
هل هناك فائده من الخروج من نطاق المدرسه الي كل الجمهوريه
من يحدد اهدافه القانون ام اداره المدرسه ام الطلاب
ما هو التوازن بين عمله وبين الدراسه وهي الوظيفيه الاساسيه للطالب
هل تعتقدون باهميه تمثيل البنات والأقليات
From my speech to AUC graduates class 2009
Finish
- You will discover as you go in life that your influence and leadership comes by choice, not from position ,rank or fate.
- My daughters and sons, “The history of free men and women is never written by chance..But by choice.”.
- Enlarging choices is critically linked to two issues: capabilities on the one hand, and opportunities on the other hand.
. Our role as seniors is to create enviroment and systems for you to widen your capabilities, and work to create opportunities , but it will be always you who make the choice , your own choice .
Let me remind you daughters and sons that all achievement, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea. An idea is the starting point. The idea when accepted will develop to become a vision, dream or goal. This is one half of the secret of success.
The power that signals success is the power of your mind. How to make life say yes or no to your plans and ambitions resides in your mind. What you think can bring success or failure.
I believe all humans are born with the same brain capacity , it is how much you work to use what is available and not used of your capacity.
There is a positive and negative use of the mind:
Positive use of the mind brings happiness, good health, success, prosperity and long life.
Negative use of the mind brings sadness, depression, sickness and diseases, failure, and poverty
