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Achieving the right to basic education for all is thus one of the biggest moral challenges of our times. -- Koichiro Matsuura
The object of basic education is the physical, intellectual and moral development of children through the medium of handicraft. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Basic education links the children, whether of the cities or the villages, to all that is best and lasting in India. -- Mahatma Gandhi
we must go on fighting for basic education for all, but also emphasize the importance of the content of education. We have to make sure that sectarian schooling does not convert education into a prison, rather than being a passport to the wide world. -- Amartya Sen
The United States spends over $87 billion conducting a war in Iraq while the United Nations estimates that for less than half that amount we could provide clean water, adequate diets, sanitations services and basic education to every person on the planet. And we wonder why terrorists attack us. -- John Perkins
I had to work to eat. I couldn't even complete a basic elementary education. -- Angel Cabrera
Access to computers and the Internet has become a basic need for education in our society. -- Kent Conrad
When I was at school you got an overall general education on many things, even just basic facts. -- Jo Brand
Shouldn't everybody join hands to give the basic minimum - food, education and health - to the entire population? -- Charan Das Mahant
A basic element of the American dream is equal access to education as the lubricant of social and economic mobility. -- Nicholas Kristof
We should all have the opportunity to at least get a basic education and feel that you are worthy of something in life. -- Jesse Williams
Many schools today are sacrificing social studies, the arts and physical education so children can cover basic subjects like math, English and science. -- Geoffrey Canada
For me, I was somebody who was a smart young guy who didn't do very well in school. The basic system of education, I didn't fit in; my intelligence was elsewhere. -- Bruce Springsteen
Now the main areas of higher education that still enjoy considerable financial support from government are subjects like engineering and science and the research ringfence which is the basic minimum to protect Britain's scientific competitiveness. -- Vince Cable
When a woman earns a dollar, the payback is higher. She'll invest in her children, in their education, health care, and basic needs. The impact of a woman's role in the economy benefits society at large. -- Andrea Jung
My early education was in the public school system of Omaha, where, retrospectively, I realize that my high school training served me in good stead for the basic subjects of mathematics, English, foreign languages and history. -- Lawrence R. Klein
The United States should pursue a more robust agenda for U.S. competitiveness and innovation focused on a lower-carbon economy, including investments in education, basic research and development, infrastructure, retraining, retirement security, and universal health care. -- Mona Sutphen
I had passed through the entire British education system studying literature, culminating in three years of reading English at Oxford, and they'd never told me about something as basic as the importance of point of view in fiction! -- Philip Pullman
The U.S. can still maintain research institutions, such as Caltech, that are the envy of the world, yet it would be hubristic and naive to think that this position is sustainable without investing in science education and basic research. -- Ahmed Zewail
At their core, Americans all want the same basic things: a quality education for their children, a good job so they can provide for their families, healthcare and affordable prescription drugs, security during retirement, a strongly equipped military and national security. -- Ruben Hinojosa
The notion that every well educated person would have a mastery of at least the basic elements of the humanities, sciences, and social sciences is a far cry from the specialized education that most students today receive, particularly in the research universities. -- Joseph Stiglitz
We hope that the elected officials will respond positively to a ground swell of letters, phone calls, e-mails and visits from parents. The law clearly states that the responsibility for giving a sound basic education to our children lies with New York State. -- Major Owens
In 1995, world military spending totaled nearly $800 billion. If we redirected just $40 billion of those resources over the next 10 years to fighting poverty, all of the world's population would enjoy basic social services, such as education, health care, nutrition, reproductive health, clean water and sanitation. -- Oscar Arias
The amount of education, in the most basic sense of the word, I receive on a daily basis through Skype amazes me. The technology is one of the reasons I wanted to join Skype and am eager to get Skype into every classroom around the globe. -- Tony Bates
What I hear every day on talk radio is America's lack of education - and I don't mean lack of college degrees. I mean lack of the basic art of democracy, the ability to seek the great truths that can come only by synthesizing the small truths possessed by each of us. -- Donella Meadows
The two basic processes of education are knowing and valuing. -- Robert J. Havighurst
Education is not a luxury, it is a basic human right. -- Madonna Ciccone
Education has really only one basic factor: one must want it. -- George Edward Woodberry
For everyone, everywhere, literacy is, along with education in general, a basic human right. -- Kofi Annan
Education is the basic tool for the development of consciousness and the reconstitution of society. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The goal of providing basic literacy and education to all the world's people is still the most basic development challenge. -- Talal Abu-Ghazaleh
I want to give people a basic education, and to help them think for themselves when it comes to food. -- Wolfgang Puck
It is no longer correct to regard higher education solely as a privilege. It is a basic right in today's world. -- Norman Cousins
The basic purpose of a liberal arts education is to liberate the human being to exercise his or her potential to the fullest. -- Barbara M. White
Above all I hope that the education of the common people will be attended to so they won't forget the basic principles of freedom. -- Thomas Jefferson
If you look at it that way, then you start thinking about the basic things, which are jobs not jails, and education not incarceration. -- Oren Moverman
It's misleading to suppose there's any basic difference between education & entertainment . This distinction merely relieves people of the responsibility of looking into the matter. -- Marshall McLuhan
I believe health care is a basic right. If education - you're entitled to an education, why wouldn't you be entitled to adequate health care? Period. -- Joe Biden
Just because a child's parents are poor or uneducated is no reason to deprive the child of basic human rights to health care, education and proper nutrition. -- Marian Wright Edelman
There is only one curriculum, no matter what the method of education: what is basic and universal in human experience and practice, the underlying structure of culture. -- Paul Goodman
I want New Story education to be skilling human beings and young people to provide basic human needs. Technology and all other things are icing on the cake. -- Satish Kumar

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