Inclusive, good-quality education is a foundation for dynamic and equitable societies.
Interpretation
Quality education is essential for building fair and vibrant communities.
Desmond Tutu's quote emphasizes the crucial role that inclusive and high-quality education plays in fostering societies that are both dynamic and equitable. It suggests that education serves as the bedrock upon which social progress and equality are constructed, implying that without access to good education for all, the potential for an equitable society is diminished.
In practice
Using this quote in a speech at an educational conference to highlight the importance of equitable education.
The fossil reserves that have already been discovered exceed what can ever be safely used. Yet companies spend half a trillion dollars each year searching for more fuel. They should redirect this money toward developing clean energy solutions
As much as the world has an instinct for evil and is a breeding ground for genocide, holocaust, slavery, racism, war, oppression, and injustice, the world has an even greateer instinct for goodness, rebirth, mercy, beauty, truth, freedom and love.
When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.
Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.
Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone's back.
Gaza is going to test who believes in the worth of human beings.
It's important, according to me, to train in small doses so as to not lose the joy of playing chess. I personally think too many coaching and training classes may take away a child's interest in the game itself. The essential thing to do is practise often and, in case of a doubt, to consult a trainer.
We may not be able to prepare the future for our children, but we can at least prepare our children for the future.
Continued adherence to a policy of compulsory education is utterly incompatible with efforts to establish lasting peace.
The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn.
Language is like a road, it cannot be perceived all at once because it unfolds in time, whether heard or read. This narrative or temporal element has made writing and walking resemble each other.
Taking trains and trams in Berlin, I noticed people reading. Books, I mean - not pocket-size devices that bleep as if censorious, on which even Shakespeare scans like a spreadsheet.
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