Access to quality education has enabled me to reach far beyond the Bangladeshi village I grew up in.
Interpretation
Education is a powerful tool that can elevate individuals beyond their initial circumstances.
In this quote, Muhammad Yunus emphasizes the transformative power of quality education, which allowed him to transcend the limitations of his humble beginnings in a Bangladeshi village. He suggests that education provides not just knowledge but also opportunities, enabling individuals to achieve their full potential regardless of their starting point in life.
In practice
Using this quote in a graduation speech to inspire students about the importance of education.
Civilization has given us enormous successes: going to the moon, technology. But then this is the civilisation that took us to debt, environmental crisis, every single crisis. We need a civilization where we say goodbye to these things.
What I did not know yet about hunger, but would find out over the next twenty-one years, was that brilliant theorists of economics do not find it worthwhile to spend time discussing issues of poverty and hunger. They believe that these will be resolved when general economic prosperity increases. These economists spend all their talents detailing the process of development and prosperity, but rarely reflect on the origin and development of poverty and hunger. A a result, poverty continues.
People.. were poor not because they were stupid or lazy. They worked all day long, doing complex physical tasks. They were poor because the financial institution in the country did not help them widen their economic base.
Some people think that poor people are lazy. Actually, it takes a lot of work to survive when you are dirt-poor.
Once poverty is gone, we'll need to build museums to display its horrors to future generations. They'll wonder why poverty continued so long in human society - how a few people could live in luxury while billions dwelt in misery, deprivation and despair.
By simply capitalizing on core strengths and knowledge, companies and entrepreneurs can engage in an emerging business model that will enable them to create - and demonstrate - real, sustainable social impact in society.
To ask the proper question is half of knowing.
Many who have had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confuse it with arithmetic, and consider it an arid science. In reality, however, it is a science which requires a great amount of imagination.
Teach them the quiet words of kindness, to live beyond themselves. Urge them toward excellence, drive them toward gentleness, pull them deep into yourself, pull them upward toward manhood, but softly like an angel arranging clouds. Let your spirit move through them softly.
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.
Libraries offer, for free, the wisdom of the ages--and sages--and, simply put, there's something for everyone inside.
Everything hinges on education. Without it, you can't advocate for proper health care, for housing, for a civil rights bill that ensures your rights.
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