Early childhood development has proved to be very beneficial and very cost-effective in societies where this is been tried. So let’s not confine ourselves to primary education. Let’s think of early childhood development and education as a whole.
AUNG SAN SUU KYII think sometimes if you are alone, you are freer because your time is your own.
More Aung San Suu Kyi Quotes
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There is nothing to be gained by being unnecessarily nasty. Violence begets violence.
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I think by now I have made it fairly clear that I am not very happy with the word hope. I don’t believe in people just hoping.
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In societies where men are truly confident of their own worth women are not merely “tolerated”, they are valued.
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We must contemplate what the meaning of being “educated” is. Some people think a person with plenty of degrees is an educated one. But I believe a person who can judge a situation correctly and make timely decisions is more important.
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It is not enough to sit and hope. You have to work in order to realize your hopes.
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I do not believe that I’m sacrificing, in fact I feel very uneasy when others used the word sacrifice to describe my life. It sounds like I’m demanding returns for my investments.
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There’s a vast difference between no checkmate and stalemate. This is what the democratic process is like.
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It is not a sacrifice, it’s a choice. If you choose to do something, then you shouldn’t say it’s a sacrifice, because nobody forced you to do it
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So peace does not mean just putting an end to violence or to war, but to all other factors that threaten peace, such as discrimination, such as inequality, poverty.
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Democracy, like liberty, justice and other social and political rights, is not “given”, it is earned through courage, resolution and sacrifice.
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I don’t think of myself as unbreakable. Perhaps I’m just rather flexible and adaptable.
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Government leaders are amazing. So often it seems they are the last to know what the people want.
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All right, your knees may be knocking but that shouldn’t prevent you from going ahead and doing what you need to do.
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That’s not what it’s all about. It’s to try and find an answer that is acceptable to all parties concerned, which would of course require some give and take.
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Sometimes I think that a parody of democracy could be more dangerous than a blatant dictatorship, because that gives people an opportunity to avoid doing anything about it.
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