Teach girls to read and to work at something where they can bring home money - and the entire balance of power shifts.
All I ever needed to know I learned in kindergarten. Share everything. . . Don't hit people. . . Clean up your own mess.
Acquiring literacy is an empowering process, enabling millions to enjoy access to knowledge and information which broadens horizons, increases opportunities and creates alternatives for building a better life.
In Scouting, a boy is encouraged to educate himself instead of being instructed.
Not with whom you are born, but with whom you are bred.
The work of education is divided between the teacher and the environment.
No one should be held back from realising their potential by fears that they will not be able to afford to go to university or that they will graduate with unmanageable levels of debt.
It is no longer correct to regard higher education solely as a privilege. It is a basic right in today's world.
I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.
Only with maturity did I come to appreciate my own Chinese roots: not just the food and the ancient history, but also the philosophy of child-rearing and the respect for education and knowledge.
I found that nothing in life is worthwhile unless you take risks.
Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies.
Experience gained in two schools under my control has taught me that punishment does not purify, if anything, it hardens children.
There's a certain pleasure in violating the strictures of your education. The trick is, if you're going to explore ideas in a poem, to be suspicious of ideas and suspicious of your own mind at the same time. It's often a matter of orchestration and pacing. Of shaping some kind of dialectic flow.
Coming age is the age of knowledge. However rich, poor or powerful a country be, if they want to move ahead, only knowledge can lead them to that path.
Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.
Education enables people and societies to be what they can be.
Access to quality education has enabled me to reach far beyond the Bangladeshi village I grew up in.
In a democratic scheme, money invested in the promotion of learning gives a tenfold return to the people even as a seed sown in good soil returns a luxuriant crop.
You can make even a parrot into a learned political economist - all he must learn are the two words "supply" and "demand. "