Harri Holkeri Quotes

I decided in '96 to dedicate my life to mostly promoting literacy and education for girls in rural Pakistan and Afghanistan.

… in the quality and range of women’s higher education, retrograde Tsarist Russia had no peer in Europe, and was second only to the U. S. A. Russian wives could own property, while in ‘advanced’ Victorian Britain, they were entirely propertyless…. The University of Calcutta gave degrees to women in 1883, decades before Oxford and Cambridge.

Canada truly understands that girls and women who have access to a safe and high-quality education is a priority.

And Title IX coming along there. I don't think Evan would have done any different than I did. I was fortunate to be there at a time when that was right.

We are not in Afghanistan because girls were not allowed to go to school, but helping them do so will give the Afghan people hope for a better future.

In inquiring concerning the benefits of the plan proposed, I shall proceed upon the supposition that female seminaries will be patronized throughout our country.

English girls' schools today providing the higher education are, so far as my knowledge goes, worthily representative of that astonishing rise in the intellectual standards of women which has taken place in the last half-century.

Getting more girls a good education requires an approach that harnesses the collective efforts of developing nations, donor nations, multilateral organizations, NGOs, private-sector institutions.

Make education more accessible to women - all women, not just Americans.

I would like all French children to have unlimited opportunities opened up for them as French minister of education.

There are many challenges in the global education ecosystem: from top-down systemic issues in how educational services are organized and delivered, to bottom-up issues of curriculum effectiveness, accountability, and human resource allocation.

I believe we need a national amendment which will guarantee every child in America the promise of not just an equal education but a high-quality equal education.

As a Member of Congress, I've continued my family's tradition of focusing on education.

One of the factors a country's economy depends on is human capital. If you don't provide women with adequate access to healthcare, education and employment, you lose at least half of your potential. So, gender equality and women's empowerment bring huge economic benefits.

It is the duty of the State to educate, and the right of the people to demand education.

There is a reason you keep hearing about the power of educating girls in the developing world. It's a reason so simple that you will probably view it with suspicion, as I once did. It's this: educating girls works. Really works.

I sat down in 1989 and I made up my mind at that point that I was going to spend the rest of my life assisting women and youth to gain social and political empowerment through business and education. I convinced myself economic empowerment of women was going to be key, especially in a country like this where most women didn't go to school.

We have done a poor job educating people about education. Only when we have clarified that can we talk about how best to achieve it.

A large part of the present anxiety to improve the education of girls and women is also due to the conviction that the political disabilities of women will not be maintained.

Girls are going to school again in Swat Valley. And that is great.

When you revolutionize education, you're taking the very mechanism of how people be smarter and do new things, and you're priming the pump for so many incredible things.

Over the next two years UNICEF will focus on improving access to and the quality of education to provide children who have dropped out of school or who work during school hours the opportunity to gain a formal education!

Female schools might be comprised in the list of those worthy the public patronage, with great propriety.

If you stop and think about our history, one of the reasons we had an American century and there is an American dream was because at key points in our history we made very bold decisions about making sure that there was very broad, universal access to quality education.

In the long term, female education may be the best way to advance the status of women.