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Those three things - autonomy, complexity, and a connection between effort and reward - are, most people will agree, the three qualities that work has to have if it is to be satisfying.

The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

Let us pick up our books and our pens, they are the most powerful weapons.

I raise up my voice-not so I can shout but so that those without a voice can be heard...we cannot succeed when half of us are held back.

He believed that lack of education was the root of all of Pakistan’s problems. Ignorance allowed politicians to fool people and bad administrators to be re-elected.

Let us pick up our books and our pens, I said. They are our most powerful weapons. One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world.

Our men think earning money and ordering around others is where power lies. They don't think power is in the hands of the woman who takes care of everyone all day long, and gives birth to their children.

One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world.

The extremists are afraid of books and pens, the power of education frightens them. they are afraid of women.

Education is education. We should learn everything and then choose which path to follow. Education is neither Eastern nor Western, it is human.

With guns you can kill terrorists, with education you can kill terrorism.

I don't want revenge on the Taliban, I want education for sons and daughters of the Taliban.