"More countries have understood that women's equality is a prerequisite for development."
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"Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.“
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"There is no development strategy more beneficial to society as a whole - women and men alike - than the one which involves women as central players."
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"Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family."
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"In the 21st century, I believe the mission of the United Nations will be defined by a new, more profound awareness of the sanctity and dignity of every human life, regardless of race or religion."
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"In Holland, they have come to precisely the same conclusion. There they have adopted a system of secular education, because they have found it impracticable to unite the religious bodies in any system of combined religious instruction."
-Richard Cobden
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"I confess that for fifteen years my efforts in education, and my hopes of success in establishing a system of national education, have always been associated with the idea of coupling the education of this country with the religious communities which exist."
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"I studied secondary education."
-Jim McKay
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"I feel that education needs an overhaul - courses are obsolete and grades are on the way out."
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"I feel like in America, we don't have a kid problem. You think about all these issues that these kids are dealing with, we have an adult problem. We have adults that do not place the priority on our kids to get a valuable education."
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"Even on education, his one accomplishment, the Leave No Child Behind Act, and he has left it unfunded."
-Sidney Blumenthal
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