Wangari Maathai - Education Quotes

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The people are starving. They need food; they need medicine; they need education. They do not need a skyscraper to house the ruling party and a 24-hour TV station.

Wangari Maathai

Education, if it means anything, should not take people away from the land, but instill in them even more respect for it, because educated people are in a position to understand what is being lost. The future of the planet concerns all of us, and all of us should do what we can to protect it. As I told the foresters, and the women, you don't need a diploma to plant a tree.

Wangari Maathai

My time in America as a student was incredibly liberating. It was also troubling. It made me think about what the nuns in Kenya had told us. My previous education had been Victorian. I had been practically living the life of a nun, even though I hadn't taken holy orders.

Wangari Maathai