China has leapfrogged into this information age, and Web users have grown very significantly, which knocked down the cost of doing the environmental transparency.

One of the things that I've always thought I would like to do is to develop an environmental index. Then people can measure their own environmental performance on an index as they do in other ways.

Public discourse has been polluted now for decades by corporate-funded disinformation - not just with climate change but with a host of health, environmental and societal threats. The implications for the planet are grim.

Education does not mean jamming information into somebody's head. Rather, it's that ancient idea that all knowledge is within us; to teach is to help somebody pull it out of themselves.

Liberating education consists in acts of cognition, not transferrals of information.

I remember that - you know, I didn't receive a formal education. I was educated in the Montevideo cafe, in the cafes of Montevideo. There, I received my first lessons in the art of telling stories, storytelling.

As a product of education, I have always believed in the power of education as the most powerful, high-impact catalyst for transformation. Look at the impact that the Indian Institutes of Technology have had globally.

In the new economy, information, education, and motivation are everything.

I haven't had any formal education. Through the grace of god, I am gifted in mathematics and the English language.

Humans aren't as good as we should be in our capacity to empathize with feelings and thoughts of others, be they humans or other animals on Earth. So maybe part of our formal education should be training in empathy. Imagine how different the world would be if, in fact, that were 'reading, writing, arithmetic, empathy.'

As African-Americans, people of that generation felt pretty much if they were going to see changes in the world, they had to make sacrifices and step up to the plate. I'm very proud that my parents happened to be people who did. They were not privileged to have a formal education.

Education has for its object the formation of character.

An absence of credible information prevents citizens from participating in public decision-making, particularly on key issues of concern such as education, health, and governance.

There are 4 billion cell phones in use today. Many of them are in the hands of market vendors, rickshaw drivers, and others who've historically lacked access to education and opportunity. Information networks have become a great leveler, and we should use them together to help lift people out of poverty and give them a freedom from want.

In an information society, education is no mere amenity; it is the prime tool for growing people and profits.

Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.

Higher education should provide an environment to test new ideas, debate theories, encounter challenging information, and figure out what one believes.

Reformation, like education, is a journey, not a destination.

The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.

Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.

The mere imparting of information is not education.

Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom.