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Anne Benjamin
Anne Benjamin is Chair of the Diocesan Catholic Schools Council. She is an Honorary Professor at Australian Catholic University and an Honorary Fellow of University of Western Sydney.
It’s a line as straight as an arrow: educate young women and you can expect a brighter future for their families. Nowhere have I seen this more clearly than in India.
As the mother of three young adults, I think it’s reasonable to hope that sometime in the imaginable future, I might become a grandmother. With that status will come the opportunity (welcomed or not by my offspring) to offer some advice, including about schooling.