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There are places on Earth, in every country, where, for various reasons, good schools cannot be built and good teachers cannot or do not want to go.
In nine months, a group of children left alone with a computer - in any language - would reach the same standard as an office secretary in the West.
Competition for the sake not of destroying one another, but for the sake of bettering and improving both competitors as a result of the competition.
It is both theoretically mistaken and morally wrong to regard others as objects of investigation rather than partners in free rational communication.
Kant considers belief in God and immortality to be items of "faith" because he relates faith to the pursuit of ends - in this case, the highest good.
If a typical person can do a mental task with less than one second of thought, we can probably automate it using AI either now or in the near future.
I find it a very encouraging sign for a society if employers are bringing online education to their companies, helping employees gain more knowledge.
Interestingly enough, not all feelings result from the body's reaction to external stimuli. Sometimes changes are purely simulated in the brain maps.
A moral principle in genetic testing is that it should always be done with the consent of the individual. No one wants someone snooping into his DNA.
Some students start thinking of their intelligence as something fixed, as carved in stone. They worry about, 'Do I have enough? Don't I have enough?'
But I do not know whether the photograph can, or does, say things as they really are. Something has been lost. But the representation is all we have.
Though we talk peace, we wage war. Sometimes we even wage war in the name of peace. Does that seem paradoxical? Well, war is not afraid of paradoxes.
Veganism must be the baseline if we are to have any hope of shifting the paradigm away from animals as things and toward animals as nonhuman persons.
Putin needs to understand and feel in his gut that if the Chechens get a nuclear bomb, they're going to Moscow first, they're not coming to New York.
We become compassionate not from altruism which denies the self for the sake of the other, but from the insight that sees and feels one is the other.
I reject the idea that any job is too hard or too dirty for American workers to do. American workers just expect and demand to be paid a decent wage.
Everyone will tell you how rigid I am, but a teacher has to be flexible. You can't cut the student to your cloth; you have to cut yourself to theirs.
Fox News's coverage of 9/11 and the war in Iraq improved its ratings, demonstrated its influence, and intensified the controversy over its practices.
Meditation is like farming... the right soil is required to grow anything, nothing will grow if the soil is polluted by striving or pushing too hard.
The first part of my name, Khalil Gibran, seems to be paying huge dividends in terms of the artistic life of the poet from whom my name was inspired.
If you have a dog, you will most likely outlive it; to get a dog is to open yourself to profound joy and, prospectively, to equally profound sadness.
Theology, not morality, is the first business on the church's agenda of reform, and the church, not society, is the first target of divine criticism.
Every government, from the Obama administration right through to Angela Merkel, the Eurozone and the IMF, promise to save the banks, not the economy.
Most of the European leaders look at themselves as having to follow the United States, because if the US opposes them, there will be a regime change.
[The] idealization of marriage is typical of those who are excluded from it: priests, gays, adolescents. It shows an extraordinary willful blindness.
All the old forms of discrimination, the forms of discrimination we supposedly left behind, are now perfectly legal once you've been labeled a felon.
Only direct control of experience, the ability to derive moment-by-moment enjoyment from everything we do, can overcome the obstacles to fulfillment.
Whatever the dictates of fashion, it seems that those who take the trouble to gain mastery over what happens in consciousness do lead a happier life.
Too often, contemning the external order as unspiritual, [the Puritan] has made it, and ultimately himself, less spiritual by reason of his contempt.
Until late in life, I was never quite good enough for my father, and I suppose that is part of what drives me even now, well after his death in 1992.
A mere 7% of employees today fully understand their company's business strategies and what's expected of them in order to help achieve company goals.
Any serious effort to reform the media system would have to necessarily be part of a revolutionary program to overthrow the capitalist system itself.
The idea of having no limits, either through education or money or possessions or power, is radically alien to everything the Bible assumes and says.
One of the greatest problems of humanity is how to live in a multi religious society without losing one's religion - without relativising everything.
It is typical for implicit status hierarchies of influence and esteem to emerge in interpersonal encounters, especially those that are goal oriented.
Peaceful secession and nullification are the only means of returning to a system of government that respects rather than destroys individual liberty.
Not only our moral life, but even our use of theoretical reason - on which we rely in rationally inquiring into nature - presupposes that we are free.
Some people might say, 'Can we afford it?' I think that's asking the wrong question... We should instead be asking, 'Can we really afford not to try?'
The rhythm of being an activist today involves a pretty simple rhythm. You have to open your eyes to the reality before you. You have to look and see.
I have fought my fight, I have lived my life, I have drunk my share of wine; From Trier to Coln there was never a knight Led a merrier life than mine.
If you study the root causes of business disasters, over and over you'll find this predisposition toward endeavors that offer immediate gratification.
When you get a checking account, you should have a savings account, and the number for the savings account should be one off of your checking account.
The eye and brain are conspirators, and, like most conspiracies, theirs is negotiated behind closed doors, in the back room, outside of our awareness.
There's been essentially the same analysis over and over again and very little allowance made for different views and interpretations and reflections.
Better that one heart be broken a thousand times in the retelling, he has decided, if it means that a thousand other hearts need not be broken at all.
The e-mails are mainly about a controversy over a particular data set and the ways a particular small group of scientists have displayed that dataset.
People are seeing the impact of climate change around them in extraordinary patterns of floods and droughts, wildfires, heatwaves and powerful storms.
What we do with little kids today will matter in 20 years. If you don't get it right, you will have an unlivable environment. That's the crisis I see.
There are loopholes big enough to drive trucks through. And Congress needs to take a look at those laws and make sure that they're much more rigorous.
We need to insist on fathers and mothers sharing the care of their offspring as well as the opportunity to enjoy the fulfillment of individual rights.