Desmond Tutu Quotes

It is our moral obligation to give every child the very best education possible.

Desmond Tutu

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• Only time, education and plenty of good schooling will make anti-segregation work.

  

  Nat King Cole
  • Time
  • Good
  • Work

• Education is the cheap defense of nations.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Education
  • Nations
  • Defense

• I like when a girl knows what she looks like and dresses to accentuate those features.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Girl
  • Dresses
  • Features

• Certainly by the time I was in seventh grade, I knew I had to have a long education if I wanted to become an astronomer, but I figured I'd try it, and if I didn't get far enough, I could always end up teaching in high school or math or physics.

  

  Nancy Roman
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• Developing skills is as important as training. A larger effort is needed to create a skilled workforce with employment potential.

  

  Pallam Raju
  • Important
  • Effort
  • Training

• Having been raised by actors who love moral ambiguity and flawed protagonists, I feel like it's sort of in the blood to want to take it on.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Like
  • Moral
  • Feel

• The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • School
  • Education

• I think if we wish to live in any kind of a moral universe, we must hold the perpetrators of violence responsible for the violence they perpetrate. It's very simple. The criminal is responsible for the crime.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Live
  • Wish
  • Simple

• I didn't get interested in education until I had kids.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Kids
  • Education
  • Interested

• You could take away the singing, and I am fine. But don't take away my gift of writing. It is the best way I can relate and express what I am feeling and what I am going through.

  

  BeBe Winans
  • Writing
  • Feeling
  • Singing

• Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

  

  G. M. Trevelyan
  • Education
  • Reading
  • Worth

• The amount of attention and sensitivity and education that we're getting in terms of specifically the transgender community is great, and certainly that's new to me. But it's not incredibly unfamiliar. I grew up in downtown New York in the '80s.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Up
  • Great
  • Education

• In education, technology can be a life-changer, a game changer, for kids who are both in school and out of school. Technology can bring textbooks to life. The Internet can connect students to their peers in other parts of the world. It can bridge the quality gaps.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Life
  • World
  • School

• Merit pay has failed repeatedly, and it's no surprise. When you base teacher pay on standardized test scores, you won't improve education; you just promote the high-stakes testing craze that's led parents, students and educators to shout 'Enough!' all across the country.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Country
  • High
  • Parents

• If we're going to see sustainable results from all the other investments we're making in education, we need to build leadership capacity in each and every country.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Country
  • Education
  • Leadership

• I realize my arms aren't as toned as Halle Berry's but I don't want them to be.

  

  Olivia Munn
  • Want
  • Realize
  • Arms

• When you work for the C.I.A. or as a diplomat, or serve in the military, you're not serving as a Democrat or a Republican; you serve as an American, whatever your personal moral compass or political views might be. So that would describe me.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Work
  • American
  • Political

• When you come through a business education, a lot of what they teach you is to make decisions through analysis, and logic and rationale, and I'm a big believer in that. But I also believe in the power of instinct. The truth is you're never going to have a perfect answer or view of how it is going to work.

  

  Imran Amed
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Business

• I'm not convinced that abstinence-only education works.

  

  Barbara Delinsky
  • Education
  • Works
  • Convinced

• Gaining my education from practical experience certainly benefited me. If I had gone on to be a lawyer, my life wouldn't have been anywhere near as interesting.

  

  Lindsay Fox
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Interesting

• Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.

  

  Karl A. Menninger
  • Friends
  • Listening
  • Creative

• Got my window open wide Got a good woman by my side I got a good woman by my side 'Cause I know Something good this way comes.

  

  Jakob Dylan
  • Good

• (Soft petals, yes, but not so barren quite, Mingled with these, smooth bean and wrinkled pea;) And go along with you ere you lose sight Of what you came for and become like me, Slave to a springtime passion for the earth. How love burns through the Putting in the Seed On through the watching for that early birth When, just as the soil tarnishes with weed, The sturdy seedling with arched body comes Shouldering its way and shedding the earth crumbs.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Earth
  • Passion
  • Slave

• It is our moral obligation to give every child the very best education possible.

  

  Desmond Tutu
  • Education
  • Moral