Inspiring quotes about education from world leaders and ordinary heroes
Children in conflicts, Education funding, Education in emergencies, Girls' education, Sarah Brown, Teachers and learning
Words alone cannot help to get every child in the world into school. But inspiring words and memorable calls to action can have a huge influence in the struggle to create lasting change for the most marginalised. So much was achieved in 2015 to help the movement to ensure every girl and boy in every country receives a quality education. Here are some memorable, uplifting and thought-provoking quotes during 2015 from some of the major figures in global education - and some of the previously unknown figures who emerged during the year.
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Words alone cannot help to get every child in the world into school. But inspiring words and memorable calls to action can have a huge influence in the struggle to create lasting change for the most marginalised.
So much was achieved in 2015 to help the movement to ensure every girl and boy in every country receives a quality education.
Here are some memorable, uplifting and thought-provoking quotes during 2015 from some of the major figures in global education 国产视频 and some of the previously unknown figures who emerged during the year.
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EDUCATION IN EMERGENCIES
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国产视频淲e cannot stand by while children are shut out from opportunity due to conflicts and emergencies.国产视频
Statement from 40 charities 国产视频 including Save The Children, Oxfam and Action Aid 国产视频 who came together to join A World at School国产视频檚 call for a platform and fund for education in emergencies
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国产视频淭his is not the year of the child but the year of fear, with 2015 already the worst year since 1945 for children being displaced, the worst year for children becoming refugees, the worst year for children seeing their schools attacked.国产视频
Gordon Brown, UN Special Envoy for Global Education (pictured above with Anthony Lake)
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国产视频淭hough the number of children affected by crisis is reaching an all-time high, financing for education in emergencies remains outrageously low.国产视频
Anthony Lake, Chief Executive, UNICEF
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国产视频淲hat we need now is the international community to stand by us. I am worried that if funding stops next year, the entire region will go down. Then we will have a lost generation.国产视频
Elias Bou Saab, Minister of Education, Lebanon
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国产视频淲e have tried our best to prevent a lost generation. But at least 650,000 to 700,000 school-age kids need education. Our goal is to get 400,000 into school by the end of the year.国产视频
Fuat Oktay, President of Disaster and Emergency Management, Turkey
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国产视频淓very day, from South Sudan to Afghanistan, we are reminded that the tragedy of conflict falls most heavily on the smallest shoulders国产视频 For Syrian children, this is a tsunami without the water. A five-year hurricane without the wind.国产视频
Antony Blinken, Deputy Secretary of State, USA听
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国产视频淭alent is universal but opportunity is not. Yet Abdisamad brims with talent and intelligence. He国产视频檚 a reminder of the fundamental aphorism of our age: Talent is universal, but opportunity is not.
Nicholas Kristof, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist (on Abdisamad Adan, first Somalian undergraduate at Harvard University)
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GIRLS国产视频 EDUCATION
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国产视频淲e need women for peace, we need women for development国产视频 Commitments are good, action is better. Let us take action!国产视频
Angela Merkel, Chancellor, Germany
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国产视频淲hen educated girls become healthy, financially secure, empowered women, they国产视频檙e far better equipped to advocate for their needs and aspirations, and challenge unjust laws and harmful practices and beliefs.国产视频
Michelle Obama, First Lady, USA
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国产视频淓very world leader wants quality education for their children. They need to think of the rest of the world国产视频檚 children as their own children.国产视频
Malala Yousafzai, Pakistani education campaigner
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FUNDING FOR EDUCATION
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国产视频淲e see a critical need in education for innovative financing solutions of the kind that have been a game changer for the health sector and enabled it to function at a large scale over the past decade.国产视频
Julia Gillard, Board Chair, Global Partnership for Education
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INNOVATIONS IN EDUCATION
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国产视频淲e are starting to see teachers using technology to improve the quality of the interactions they have with their students every day. It will still take time to find out which ideas will have the biggest impact, but it国产视频檚 exciting to see the changes that are already happening.国产视频
Bill Gates, American co-founder of Microsoft and philanthropist
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国产视频淲e in the education sphere have an amazing opportunity to test out new ways of teaching children, from double-shift schools for refugees to tablets that can provide lessons in temporary shelters for those who have been forced to flee their homes.国产视频
Sarah Brown, education campaigner and President of 国产视频 (parent charity of A World at School)
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SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS
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国产视频淲e can no longer be a generation of bystanders. Join me in holding your leaders accountable for achieving the new SDGs. Failing is not an option. Education opens the doors to all kinds of opportunities.国产视频
Erna Solberg, Prime Minister, Norway
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国产视频淚国产视频檝e been given the amazing honour of delivering this #UpForSchool Petition, written to world leaders meeting at the UN this week. In this book there are 10 million signatures. We need the commitment of leaders around the world and we need them to put children国产视频檚 education at the top of their agendas.国产视频
Shakira, Colombian singer-songwriter and children国产视频檚 campaigner
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国产视频淚t is our moment to galvanise international support for education as the world prepares to adopt a new set of Sustainable Development Goals to guide the struggle to achieve a life of dignity for all国产视频. To turn promises into action, we have to mobilise resources.国产视频
Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General, United Nations
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国产视频淓ducation 国产视频 is the basis for the implementation of the 2030 agenda and for reclaiming the environment.国产视频
Pope Francis (at the UN General Assembly)
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国产视频淓ducation is the key to bring transparency and accountability in society. It is our collective responsibility to get our children educated. The vision I have is to see every single child to be in school, in a playground.国产视频
Kailash Satyarthi, Indian children国产视频檚 rights campaigner
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CHANGE MAKERS
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国产视频淚 thank them so much and I hope they can do this campaign for every Syrian refugee, because there are children on the streets.国产视频
Abdul Halim Attar (Syrian father who sold pens on the streets to help his children, thanking those who launched a crowdfunding campaign that raised $90,000)
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国产视频淚 study here because there are no lights in our home. I think one day I would like to be a policeman or maybe even a doctor.国产视频
Daniel Cabrera, Filipino boy who was pictured doing his homework in the street under the light from a McDonald国产视频檚 restaurant
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国产视频淢y vision for Afghanistan is a free country, a society where everybody is educated. Every single girl must be educated in Afghanistan 国产视频 that is my dream. I don国产视频檛 have a small dream. My vision is big, has been big and is going to be big, constantly.
Sakena Yacoobi, Afghan winner of 2015 WISE Prize for Education
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国产视频淓ducation is not a one-time investment. It is the only sector where you invest and it never finishes because it goes from one generation to another. If you construct one school and that stays there for ever, so many generations will benefit from that school 国产视频 but how many people can use one tent for how long?国产视频
Aqeela Asifi, Afghan Nansen Refugee Award winner
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国产视频淔rom the age of five to nine my left hand wasn国产视频檛 used to sign a petition but to squeeze the trigger of an AK47 that was taller than I was.This war for educational equality is personal to me. Because I know first-hand how it feels to wake up in the morning and not be able to go to school. I know how it feels to wake up in the morning, not by the sound of an alarm clock I set but the sound of guns and bombs dropping and reducing my memories to flames.国产视频
Mohamed Sidibay, former child soldier from Sierra Leone and now a Global Youth Ambassador for A World at School
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国产视频淚 am concerned about early marriage, early pregnancy, and [young girls in Kibera] having futures that are not what they want. I emphasise how important education is as the main instrument for their success.国产视频
Kennedy Odede, Kenyan founder of Shining Hope for Communities
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国产视频淚 wish for [girls around the world] that they can achieve what they want. This is your world. This is your choice. You should stand up for your rights. No one can stand for you. If one person can be educated, they can teach other people. You help one person and they will also help another person.国产视频
Shazia Ramzan, A World at School Global Youth Ambassador from Pakistan (pictured above, left, with GYA Kainat Riaz)
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国产视频淲e must ensure generations of children in Syria and around the world don国产视频檛 pay the price of needless wars, earthquakes and other emergencies because their education is neglected.国产视频
Laura Carmichael, star of British TV series Downton Abbey and A World at School Ambassador,
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国产视频淎n attack on one school is an attack on all schools. An attack on one child is an attack on all children.国产视频
Baela Raza Jamil, Adviser/Trustee, Idara-e-Taleem-o-Aagahi (ITA), Pakistan
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国产视频淓ducation was always a big cause for me 国产视频 my family have always stressed its importance and I really believe that it helps to save lives.国产视频
Steve Nguyen, film maker who created RISE #UpForSchool video for A World at School
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国产视频淭here is no better investment a nation can make than education. It is an investment in economic development, an investment in opportunity and an investment in our shared future.国产视频
Evelin Weber, writer, entrepreneur and A World at School Ambassador, Philippines
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If you have been inspired by any of these quotes, please join the campaign to get every Syrian refugee child into school in neighbouring Lebanon, Turkey and Jordan.
Education in emergencies
国产视频淲e cannot stand by while children are shut out from opportunity due to conflicts and emergencies.国产视频听
Statement from 40 charities 国产视频 including Save The Children, Oxfam and Action Aid 国产视频 who came together to join A World at School国产视频檚 call for a platform and fund for education in emergencies
国产视频淭his is not the year of the child but the year of fear, with 2015 already the worst year since 1945 for children being displaced, the worst year for children becoming refugees, the worst year for children seeing their schools attacked.国产视频
Gordon Brown, UN Special Envoy for Global Education
国产视频淭hough the number of children affected by crisis is reaching an all-time high, financing for education in emergencies remains outrageously low.国产视频
Anthony Lake, Chief Executive, UNICEF
国产视频淲hat we need now is the international community to stand by us. I am worried that if funding stops next year, the entire region will go down. Then we will have a lost generation.国产视频
Elias Bou Saab, Minister of Education, Lebanon
国产视频淲e have tried our best to prevent a lost generation. But at least 650,000 to 700,000 school-age kids need education. Our goal is to get 400,000 into school by the end of the year.国产视频
Fuat Oktay, President of Disaster and Emergency Management, Turkey
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