Quotes by Greg Mortenson, Stones Into Schools: Promoting Peace With Books, Not Bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan

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When you take the time to actually listen, with humility, to what people have to say, it's amazing what you can learn. E — Greg Mortenson, Stones Into Schools: Promoting Peace With Books, Not Bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan
If you teach a boy, you educate an individual; but if you teach a girl, you educate a community. — Greg Mortenson, Stones Into Schools: Promoting Peace With Books, Not Bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan
Because most of the girls were still in mourning and all of them had lost their textbooks, even pencils and pens, Shauka — Greg Mortenson, Stones Into Schools: Promoting Peace With Books, Not Bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan
...education is a sacred thing, and the pledge to build a school is a commitment that cannot be surrendered or broken, r — Greg Mortenson, Stones Into Schools: Promoting Peace With Books, Not Bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan
I have always been dismayed by the West’s failure—or unwillingness—to recognize that establishing secular schools that o — Greg Mortenson, Stones Into Schools: Promoting Peace With Books, Not Bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan
Two decades of virtually uninterrupted fighting had made even the most dignified structures appear drunken, wounded, or — Greg Mortenson, Stones Into Schools: Promoting Peace With Books, Not Bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan
Today that legend is inscribed on the stones that were used to build the walls of the school, and as the water falls out — Greg Mortenson, Stones Into Schools: Promoting Peace With Books, Not Bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan