Why are fanatics so terrified of girls’ education? Because there’s no force more powerful to transform a society. The greatest threat to extremism isn’t drones firing missiles, but girls reading books.
Throughout my career, some of my best hires have been people who have bypassed the traditional route of university and learned their skills through apprenticeship schemes or alternative education courses.
If adolescent pregnancy prevention is to become a priority, then our strategy, as advocates, must contain two key elements: civic engagement and education.
SEAL training was a great equalizer. Nothing mattered but your will to succeed. Not your color, not your ethnic background, not your education and not your social status.
I was born to a single mother and often struggled to find my next meal. With the right opportunities from public education and mentors, I achieved the American dream.
Education, particularly higher education, will take Africa into the mainstream of globalization.
Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment.
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
The length of your education is less important than its breadth, and the length of your life is less important than its depth.
Because I’ve never had any higher education of any sort, I’ve never held in awe those who have had it or have a sense of superiority over those who don’t.
Education is the great growth industry of the Third World. Since the Second World War, we have multiplied the number of children in school by four, with even larger multiples for secondary and university education.
Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat.
Education in the past has been too much inspiration and too little information.
All real education is the architecture of the soul.
In some parts of the world, students are going to school every day. It’s their normal life. But in other part of the world, we are starving for education… it’s like a precious gift. It’s like a diamond.
When I was little, the world was simple. But as a young adult, I’m learning that as we have to make choices – education, career, lifestyle – life gets more and more complicated.
Education is the development of power and ideal.
Education is a vacine for violence.
Health care is not a privilege. It’s a right. It’s a right as fundamental as civil rights. It’s a right as fundamental as giving every child a chance to get a public education.
You know, nothing is more important than education, because nowhere are our stakes higher; our future depends on the quality of education of our children today.
Sometimes people think that I’m maybe pretentious or just weird, a fraud, or fake, because I have a formal education and speak properly and give people respect.
Research shows that when women are empowered as political leaders, countries often experience higher standards of living with positive developments in education, infrastructure, and health care.
Education is everything – education is your power, education is your way in life for whatever you want to do.
The education of women is the best way to save the environment.
Sex education has to do with what’s in people’s head.
