You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.
Likewise, education can direct people toward good or evil ends. When education is based on a fundamentally distorted worldview, the results are horrific.
The effects of human rights education can be dramatic in awakening people to the value and power of their own lives, as shown in the following stories.
Education must, be not only a transmission of culture but also a provider of alternative views of the world and a strengthener of the will to explore them.
My real education began when I entered the University of Chicago in September 1951 as a graduate student.
One of my great laments is that education today seems to have... be less about passion and more about process, more about tactic or technique.
All over the world, we're seeing access to food, clean water, education and healthcare improve; as a result, global innovation is rising as well.
Education must begin with the solution of the student-teacher contradiction, by reconciling the poles of the contradiction so that both are simultaneously teachers and students.
We never had it as rough as the kids have it today. Look at the price of a gallon of gas or a piece of real estate or a college education.
For me, going vegan was an ethical and environmental decision. I'm doing the right thing by the animals.
On the environmental front there's concern about global warming and high levels of carbon dioxide, and trees take in CO2 and store carbon.
All our environmental problems become easier to solve with fewer people and harder - and ultimately impossible to solve - with ever more people.
For too much of history, we've viewed the world's precious resources - both environmental and human - as things to extract, to make the most of in order to maximize their potential.
Address these environmental issues and you will address every issue known to man. And we keep dabbling in things that aren't really that important in the long term.
Sporting events like the Olympics have developed and maintained a clear message of promoting gender equality as an essential criterion in the success of any international event.
You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one.
The Great War proved how confused the world is. Depression is proving it again.
My parents did great and provided well, and gave all their kids personal, moral, ethical values, not a belief that we were entitled to something.
Yes, everyone deserves to have national health care in a great nation such as ours. We just need to find ways to do it and not be overtaxed.
Of course, Einstein was a very great scientist indeed, and I have enormous respect for him, and great admiration for the discoveries he made. But he was very committed to a view of the objectivity of the physical world.
Our goal is to make General Motors the most valuable automotive company. Clearly, that is having sustainable profitability and driving great returns for our shareholders.
