U Thant Quotes

I want to change the world. I want to be a part of culture. I want to help teach.

Education is at a turning point

We shall one day learn to supersede politics by education. What we call our root-and-branch reforms of slavery, war, gambling, intemperance, is only medicating the symptoms. We must begin higher up, namely, in education.

We need another revolution in the Arab world. We need an education revolution. If there's one thing we need to focus on, it's redesigning our educational systems.

Teach For America was built on the idea that our best hope of reaching 'One Day' is to have thousands of alumni use their diverse experiences and ideas to effect change from inside and outside the education system.

We can change the world, but not improve it, if we do not have peace.

I realized if you can change a classroom, you can change a community, and if you change enough communities you can change the world.

Something has to change in the world. Without change, young people will have no future.

Inner city education must change. Our responsibility is not merely to provide access to knowledge; we must produce educated people.

The world has changed but our school systems haven't.

It is not enough to reform the educational system. We have to replace the educational system.

No plan of popular education can be realized alone; a change both in the political and material condition of the people is also needed; and they who imagine that an educational transformation may be accomplished alone, deceive themselves.

Schools were not just places to learn. They were epicenters of social revolution.

If we are to make any real, speedy and substantial progress, we must earnestly tackle this question and bring our educational policy and program on the lines suited to the genius of our people, consonant with our history and culture, and having regard to the modern conditions and vast developments that have taken place all over the world. .

The only way to beat poverty in America is to completely transform American public education

Education will never be raised to a level adequate to the demands of the present form of civilization--it is woefully inadequate now--till international ethical action raises it.

The innovation and creativity that's so manifest in the rest of society needs to be turned on our school systems.

We are here not only to transform the world but also to be transformed.

Love is definitely a foundation, a spiritual connection that makes peace. Also it is the change in the world. People don't get so hung up on it any more as they used to. They feel that it can be secondary in some instances.

I want to share with you my belief in your power to change this country and this world.

Schools should take an active part in directing social change, and share in the construction of a new social order

If we make consistent effort, based on proper education, we can change the world.

The world is continually changing. I think in some ways it's changing in a very positive way.

Sport has the power to change the world... Sport can awaken hope where there was previously only despair.

If you want to change this world, this community that we all live in, then get up and do it. And just start something.