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Quote by Harri Holkeri
If there is something I would like to do as President of the Gener

If there is something I would like to do as President of the General Assembly, it is to place more emphasis on the issue of education, which enables a better life for women. – Harri Holkeri

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There are many challenges, there are many obstacles let us try to change the obstacles to advantages. – Harri Holkeri

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I do not want to speak about overpopulation or birth control, but I think education is the way to give new impetus to the poverty question. – Harri Holkeri

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Education
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I think we have grave problems. I am very much concerned about environmental questions, even though in Finnish society, we are not facing the most urgent problems. – Harri Holkeri

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environmental
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I confess that for fifteen years my efforts in education, and my hopes of success in establishing a system of national education, have always been associated with the idea of coupling the education of this country with the religious communities which exist. – Richard Cobden

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America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week. – Evan Esar

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The present structure of rewards in high schools produces a response on the part of an adolescent social system which effectively impedes the process of education. – James S. Coleman

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Education… has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. – G.M. Trevelyan

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