Quotes by Greg Mortenson

Greg Mortenson

. . . hope resides in the future, while perspective and wisdom are almost always found by looking to the past.

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…education is a sacred thing, and the pledge to build a school is a commitment that cannot be surrendered or broken, regardless of how long it may take, how many obstacles must be surmounted, or how much money it will cost. It is by such promises that the balance sheet of one’s life is measured.

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A wise man from my home once told me that these mountains have seen far too much suffering and killing, and that each rock and every boulder you see represents a mujahadeen who died fighting either the Russians or the Taliban. Then the man went on to say that now that the fighting is finished, it is time to build a new era of peace-and the first step in that process is to take up the stones and start turning them into schools.

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Wise

According to UNESCO: there are over 154 million children in the world deprived of education due to poverty, slavery, racism, religious extremism, gender discrimination, and geographical isolation. The cost to educate a child in the third world is about $ 1 per month per child. To achieve global literacy, the investment would be $ 8 billion per year for 15 years.

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Religious

And they did it with something that is basicly worthless in our society – pennies. But overseas, pennies can move mountains

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Because most of the girls were still in mourning and all of them had lost their textbooks, even pencils and pens, Shaukat Ali began the first classes by reading to them from poetry and religious texts. “Reading, literature, and spirituality are good for the soul,” he told them. “So we will start with these studies.

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Religious

But what I really believe is education is a key to pretty much everything – prosperity, economics, peace, stability.

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Keys

Prosperity

By the way, although the subtitle of the book “Three Cups of Tea” is “fighting terror, one school at a time”, that was not my choice, as fighting terror is not why I do this, I do it to promote peace, and give hope and opportunity to children deprived of education.

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Children

School

Certainly I am sometimes afraid, but my hope is greater than my fear, and the biggest enemy we all face is ignorance which breeds hatred, whether it be in America, or Afghanistan, or anywhere. We owe it to our children that we may give them all a legacy of peace, but it will take courage and compassion.

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Compassion

Ignorance

Everywhere I go in Pakistan and Afghanistan, I am touched by the fierce desire for education, and the outpouring of hospitality and generosity. The most important ingredient is the relationships. The process takes “Three Cups of Tea”. First you are a stranger, second a friend, and the third, you become family, but the process takes several years. Here in America, we have 8 second sound bytes, 2 minute football drills, and thirty minute power lunches.

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Generosity

Tea

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Quotes by Greg Mortenson

Greg Mortenson

. . . hope resides in the future, while perspective and wisdom are almost always found by looking to the past.

…education is a sacred thing, and the pledge to build a school is a commitment that cannot be surrendered or broken, regardless of how long it may take, how many obstacles must be surmounted, or how much money it will cost. It is by such promises that the balance sheet of one’s life is measured.

And they did it with something that is basicly worthless in our society – pennies. But overseas, pennies can move mountains

But what I really believe is education is a key to pretty much everything – prosperity, economics, peace, stability.

By the way, although the subtitle of the book “Three Cups of Tea” is “fighting terror, one school at a time”, that was not my choice, as fighting terror is not why I do this, I do it to promote peace, and give hope and opportunity to children deprived of education.

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