Accepted Quote by Harri Holkeri

One of the most compelling arguments for encouraging the education of girls, particularly in developing countries, is this: Education enables jobs, jobs are a…

— Tae Yoo

“Adolescence is a period of life when the brain is malleable, and it represents a good opportunity for learning and social development. However, according…

— John Brockman

A more just world is possible. In most of the global issues, and also in so many of the development issues I'm involved in…

— Queen Noor of Jordan

The world got side-tracked from development issues during the post-9/11 crisis period.

— Jeffrey Sachs

I would like to see many times more dollars going into the education for girls. The World Bank has some wonderful statistics in terms…

— Swanee Hunt

A large part of the present anxiety to improve the education of girls and women is also due to the conviction that the political…

— Millicent Fawcett

Learning, while at school, that the charge for the education of girls was the same as that for boys, and that, when they became…

— Lucretia Mott

I see encouraging signs of democracy developing in other places in the Middle East. In Tunisia, in Iraq, and now in Egypt. Tunisia is…

— Bernard Lewis

I decided in '96 to dedicate my life to mostly promoting literacy and education for girls in rural Pakistan and Afghanistan.

— Greg Mortenson

One of the greatest faults of the women of the present time is a silly fear of things, and one object of the education…

— Ellen Swallow Richards

The massive corruption common in so many developing countries would be quite impossible if Western countries did not provide convenient opportunities to ship ill-gotten…

— Thomas Pogge

As developing countries became bigger traders, it was clear that the old way of doing business wouldn't fly. To get them back to the…

— Daniel Altman