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"Behind every crisis is an opportunity. My greatest wish for all who are involved in education today is that they don't simply go back to the status quo."

— Fred Swaniker

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"The only way that we can justify privilege is by solving the world's biggest problems, and by doing hard things."

"We don't need best practice from the rest of the world, but new practice."

"Leadership cannot be taught, but it can be learned."

"What we need in Africa is not the unicorn, but perhaps a camel. Camels are sturdy. They are able to withstand difficult times."

"The average age of an African is 19.5. I spend my life today looking for and developing Africa's future talent."

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You have to start with the truth. The truth is the only way that we can get anywhere. Because any decision-making that is based upon lies or ignorance can't lead to a good conclusion.

Julian Assange

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.

Albert Einstein Moral Decay (1937)

The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want, to rally itself for a new and sterner struggle with error.

Friedrich Schiller On the Aesthetic Education of Man (1794)

Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.

Bertrand Russell

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