Education

Our current higher education system is steeped in a philosophy that doubts our ability to even perceive the physical world. That philosophy is called postmodernism.

Too many students don't have sufficient teachers and staff to provide the support and education they need...so today we brought together critical leaders from across the spectrum to discuss the challenges and the ways the public and private sector can work together to get more quality people into the classroom.

Until we get equality in education, we won’t have an equal society.

I would imagine that there is probably a gun in the schools to protect from potential grizzlies.

It would be very good for us if we had the internet in the schools. And we hope that in the future, we'll not only have the internet, we're also dreaming of installing language laboratories in every school.

You are not born with a fixed amount of resilience. Like a muscle, you can build it up, draw on it when you need it. In that process you will figure out who you really are—and you just might become the very best version of yourself

To have a fulfilling life you have to make promises,you have to surrender some freedom of choice to taste a higher freedom, the freedom that comes after you’ve settled on a direction, chained yourself to a cause, an enlarged your capacities. It is precisely our restraints that liberate us for that higher freedom.

My dream changed from becoming a doctor to becoming the Prime Minister of Pakistan, for fixing all the issues in bringing education to all.

We must all be historians. Who we are is indelibly shaped by who we have been.

It took me a moment to realize what was going on, that he was hitting me because I was a Jew. I turned around and realized it was somebody I didn’t know. I realized he was there to kill. I said, ‘Stop, stop, stop!’ but he heard nothing.

I see myself in these girls. I see my daughters in these girls. These girls are our girls, and I simply can't walk away from them. So for me, this is truly a moral issue.