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" One of the factors a country's economy depends on is human capital. If you don't provide women with adequate access to healthcare, education and employment, you lose at least half of your potential. So, gender equality and women's empowerment bring huge economic benefits. "

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" Teach For America was built on the idea that our best hope of reaching 'One Day' is to have thousands of alumni use their diverse experiences and ideas to effect change from inside and outside the education system. "

Wendy Kopp

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" If you hit a Talib with your shoe, then there would be no difference between you and the Talib. You must not treat others with cruelty and that much harshly, you must fight others but through peace and through dialogue and through education. "

" Education in India has made monumental progress since Independence but continues to face daunting challenges at multiple levels, particularly in terms of quality, infrastructure and dropout rates. We have islands of excellence floating in a sea of mediocrity. "

" Learning, while at school, that the charge for the education of girls was the same as that for boys, and that, when they became teachers, women received only half as much as men for their services, the injustice of this distinction was so apparent. "

" We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries. "

" We're first on executions. We're 49th in funding public education. We're in a race with Mississippi for the bottom, and we're winning. "

" The great aim of education is not knowledge but action. "

" Every child should have the opportunity to receive a quality education. "

" The purpose of education is to make good human beings with skill and expertise... Enlightened human beings can be created by teachers. "

" Higher education should be based on quality, not quantity; receive merit-based funding; and be free of unnecessary bureaucracy. Not the least of the benefits of educational reform is to foster the pride of achievement at national and international levels. "

" The idea of education has been so tied to schools, universities, and professors that many assume there is no other way, but education is available to anyone within reach of a library, a post office, or even a newsstand. "

" Too much of what is called 'education' is little more than an expensive isolation from reality. "

" My background was computer science and business school, so eventually I worked my way up where I was running product groups - development, testing, marketing, user education. "

" When I see the Confederate flag, I see the attempt to raise an empire in slavery. It really, really is that simple. I don't understand how anybody with any sort of education on the Civil War can see anything else. "

" Had I pursued my education long enough to learn all the conventional dos and don'ts of starting a business, I often wonder how different my life and career might have been. "

" You know there is a problem with the education system when you realize that out of the 3 R's only one begins with an R. "

" Research has shown time and time again that infants who receive the high-quality child care and early education programs do better in school, have more developed social skills, and display fewer behavior problems. "

" We need better public education and more realistic education. "

" There is no education like adversity. "

Benjamin Disraeli

Education

Adversity

" If we want boys to succeed, we need to bring them back to education by making education relevant to them and bring in more service learning and vocational 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. "

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Education

Today

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" We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place. "

" My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out. "

" There are many problems, but I think there is a solution to all these problems; it's just one, and it's education. "

" Apart from education, you need good health, and for that, you need to play sports. "

" While my parents never had the time or money to secure university education themselves, they were adamant that their children should. In comfort and in love, we were taught the joys of knowledge and of work well done. I only regret that neither my mother nor my father could live to see the day I would accept the Nobel Prize. "

" I believe that education is all about being excited about something. Seeing passion and enthusiasm helps push an educational message. "

" When women earn the money for the family, everyone in the family benefits. We also know that when women have an income, everyone wins because women dedicate 90% of the income to health, education, to food security, to the children, to the family, or to the community, so when women have an income, everybody wins. "

" I really am at a place where I think we need to feed every child at school for free and feed them a real school lunch that's sustainable and nutritious and delicious. It needs to be part of the curriculum of the school in the same way that physical education was part of the curriculum, and all children participated. "

" All over the world, we're seeing access to food, clean water, education and healthcare improve; as a result, global innovation is rising as well. "