If you don’t have an effective teacher in front of the classroom, you won’t change the trajectory for students.
MELINDA GATESIf you ask, who has the chance to move into the city and get a good job out in the developing world? It’s a man. Who’s left to care for the kids back at home? The woman is.
More Melinda Gates Quotes
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Take time to learn about the lives of women around the world-and try to play a small part in their fight to create the future they deserve.
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Abortion has become a very politicised issue that I think countries have to work out themselves. In a lot of countries, people can’t even yet agree on what their laws should be.
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That’s universal – we all want to bring every good thing to our children. But what’s not universal is our ability to provide every good thing.
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You are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.
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I learn in a different way. I learn experientially.
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All lives have an equal value.
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I realized that the only way to get into a good college was to be valedictorian or salutatorian. So that was my goal.
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I think it’s very important that we instill in our kids that it has nothing to do with their name or their situation that they’re growing up in; it has to do with who they are as an individual.
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The biggest killers of children around the world are two things: diarrhea and pneumonia. When you think about it, in the United States, kids don’t die of diarrhea anymore, but it’s a huge problem in the developing world.
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What great changes have not been ambitious?
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Everyone agrees that the failure of our high schools is tragic. It’s bad business, and it’s bad policy. But we act as if it can’t be helped. It can be helped. We designed these high schools; we can redesign them.
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When we invest in women, we invest in a powerful source of global development.
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If we don’t empower women, we don’t allow them to unlock the potential of themselves and their children.
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Women are the centre of the family. It’s the woman who decides what’s eaten in the house, when to have the kids vaccinated; everything that has to do with the children’s health revolves around her.
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If you invest in a girl or a woman, you are investing in everybody else.
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