Education Activists

"Energy efficiency offers governments the cheapest and easiest way to “bend the emission curve,” while also potentially creating skilled jobs at a time when the automation shift is challenging employment,"

"A big part of this will lie in helping governments “pivot” away from the old energy provision models — based on centralized, fossil fuel-based utilities — toward newer decarbonized and decentralized models,"

"So how to make energy efficiency sexy again is a very important challenge for this new initiative,”"

"Focusing on those traditionally beyond the energy system is actually something which needs to be front of mind in policymaking,”"

"“democratization of the way in which people achieve their energy needs.” This shift is both “exciting and terrifying” for regulators and institutional managers in the old energy system,"

"There’s an enormous fascination with the idea that there is all this trapped capital in pension funds … of the developed world and that … a couple of magic buttons … need to be pressed and all that capital will find its way into large-scale infrastructure projects in developing countries,”But that’s not going to happen now or any time soon,"

"I don’t see a market now or in the future for capture or storage on its own, but for use, yes,"

"Integration” of services will be critical to addressing this access gap"

"But big questions remain around who pays for carbon capture, storage, and use — government, companies, individuals, or development finance institutes — and these questions “need to be worked on now,”"

"thumb|Rachel Kyte at Spotlight Health Aspen Ideas Festival 2015For some time, I have felt a growing pull between the work I love of leading Fletcher and working with all of you and the opportunities to contribute to the vital and increasingly urgent work I feel compelled to be part of about our collective future,"

"Fletcher's academic offerings will need to be more flexible, more financially accessible, and more responsive to remain attractive and compelling for students who want programs that can more immediately impact their professional growth,. “The reforms we have made in our academic offerings are having an impact, but we know that there is more to do.”"

"We know how to help communities through transition … delaying debate on that or portraying it as anything else is delaying the job at hand,"

"“the international community [needs] to come together and offer better alternatives [and] not just analysis,” as well as presenting a “pathway forward with available finance for those alternatives.”"

"In our house and in our personal relationship, SOLA starts from when we wake up to when we go to bed,"

"I've borrowed a stone from the airport. I need to return. I spend every waking hour preparing for it,""

"I found myself in a classroom where most of my classmates were six years older than me. And it was the first time I was aware of the gift my parents had given me by risking their lives and our lives [referring to her sister]. Because when I went to school, my thinking and my aspirations changed."

"I was taking with me from Afghanistan some of the best educated girls, women leaders in the making. I felt so heartbroken for our people, for Afghanistan. I felt heartbroken for the very people who are leaving. They are some of the most wanted talents in Afghanistan. And as soon as they step outside of this airport, they are going to be seen as unwanted refugees wherever they end up,"

"What struck me the most, was living in a society for the first time in my life, where girls had no concerns whatsoever that their freedom to attend school could be taken away from them at any time, which is something that every single Afghan girl who's lucky enough to go to school lives with,""

"We cannot under any circumstances submit to the Taliban's vision for Afghanistan. It means continuing to educate more Afghan girls,"

"“That gave us even more opportunities for innovation in that space. Creating a physical and safe nurturing learning environment in Kabul that allowed us to draw students from some of the most remote areas,”"

"The same shopkeeper at a certain convenience store should not notice you every day. They (parents) never knew when or if we would return home,""

"It made a point to re-evaluate our responsibility towards the SOLA students, family, and staff and we knew that it was going to be increasingly irresponsible to operate as the only girls’ boarding school given the increased insecurity and unpredictability of [the] political situation in the country,”"

"Our parents would tell us; you can be forced to leave your home, forced into exile, and lose any material or property in your possession. But the one thing that can never be taken away from you is your education,"

"Out of the blue, Rwanda became a possibility and quite fortunately we were quickly welcomed,”"

"I was brought up in a household where we knew that the greater risk in our lives was not getting education as opposed to getting killed,”"

"We have been through a difficult journey of evacuation. We gave our students basic art supplies and they started painting and drawing just as a way of going through therapy here,”"

"We believe that it is critical to invest in children’s minds, equipping them with life skills that will help them become successful in life."

"The only solution, he believed, was the Great Refusal: the complete disintegration of the existing society, beginning with a revolt in the universities and the ghettos, then dissolving 'the system’s hypocritical morality and ‘values’' through the relentless application of his 'critical theory of society,' a philosophy described by Marcuse scholar Douglas Kellner as 'Western Marxism,' 'neo-Marxism,' or 'critical Marxism.'"

"The critical race theorists and their allies have turned resentment into a governing principle. But this also a trap: resentment is a tool for obtaining power, not of wielding it successfully."

""[D]iversity, equity, and inclusion" represents a new mode of institutional governance. Diversity is the new system of racial standing, equity is the new method of power transfer, inclusion is the new method of enforcement. All of this could be presented to institutional leadership in a language that appears to be soft, benign, tolerant, and open-minded — something that, combined with the threat of accusation, elite administrators were culturally incapable of resisting."

"The revolution, which seeks to connect ideology to bureaucratic power and to manipulate behavior through the guise of expertise, is ultimately not democratic."

"He understands intuitively that appeals to a new system of governance based on 'diversity, equity, and inclusion' are a pretense for establishing a political order that is hostile to his values, even if he does not yet possess the vocabulary to pierce through the shell of euphemism and describe its essence."

"The popular slogan that "facts don’t care about your feelings" betrays similar problems. In reality, feelings almost always overpower facts. Reason is the slave of the passions."

"Learn how to 'challenge racist, bigoted, discriminatory, imperialist/colonial beliefs' and critique 'white supremacy, racism and other forms of power and oppression.' Teachers are then encouraged to drive their pupils to participate in 'social movements that struggle for social justice' and 'build new possibilities for a post-racist, post-systemic racism society.' R. Tolteka Cuauhtin, the original co-chair of the Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum, developed much of the material regarding early American history. In his book Rethinking Ethnic Studies, cited in the state's official reference guide, Cuauhtin argues that the United States was founded on a 'Eurocentric, white supremacist (racist, anti-Black, anti-Indigenous), capitalist (classist), patriarchal (sexist and misogynistic), heteropatriarchal (homophobic), and anthropocentric paradigm brought from Europe."

"Academics want to be free to push their ideology at all times, but they also want to be free of democratic oversight. I hope to reverse that. I hope that the opposite becomes true over time."

"I have a bit more of a subtle take on the question of indoctrination: A lot of conservatives say 'Universities are indoctrinating kids to be blue-haired gender communists.' That's kind of a meme that you see everywhere, and I could understand why at first glance you might think that, but I don't think that's exactly how it works. I don't think that most professors are consciously in a cult-like manner indoctrinating their students, pushing their ideology, converting them to the cause in that kind of recruiting sense. I actually think it's something more subtle and more insidious. I think that it's just that they're not exposing students to any alternative sets of ideas."

"In pursuit of this goal, the state curriculum encouraged teachers to lead their students in a series of indigenous songs, chants, and affirmations, including the 'In Lak Ech Affirmation,' which appealed directly to the Aztec gods. Students clapped and chanted to the deity Tezkatlipoka—whom the Aztecs traditionally worshipped with human sacrifice and cannibalism—asking him for the power to become 'warriors' for 'social justice.' As the chant came to a climax, students performed a supplication for 'liberation, transformation, [and] decolonization,' after which they asked the gods for the power of 'critical consciousness.'"

"As Cuauhtin tells it, white Christians committed 'theocide' against indigenous spirituality. Those deities must be resurrected and restored to their rightful place in the social justice cosmology. It is, in a philosophical sense, a revenge of the gods."

"Let us resolve to put in our best, it calls for little bit of sacrifice and commitment than we have been showing. We should think of what we can do to assist the corporation than what the corporation can do for us, we are better if not best when we resolve to do so."

"Cada vez que lo veo pasar Mi corazón se enloquece Y me empieza a palpitar Y se emociona (y se emociona) Ya no razona No lo puedo controlar Y se emociona (y se emociona) Ya no razona Y me empieza a cantar (cantar) Me canta así así Bidi bidi bom bom (bidi bidi bom bom) Bidi bidi bom bom (bidi bidi bom bom) Bidi bidi bidi bidi bidi bom bom Bidi bidi bidi bidi bidi bom bom."

"Con unas ansias locas quiero verte hoy Espero ese momento en que escuche tu voz Y cuando al fin estemos juntos los dos Qué importa qué dirán tu padre y tu mamá Aquí sólo importa nuestro amor, te quiero Amor prohibido murmuran por las calles Porque somos de distintas sociedades Amor prohibido nos dice todo el mundo El dinero no importa en ti y en mí, ni en el corazón Oh, oh baby."

"Late at night when all the world is sleeping I stay up and think of you And I wish on a star That somewhere you are Thinking of me tooI'll be dreaming of you tonight 'Till tomorrow I'll be holding you tight And there's nowhere in the world I'd rather be Than here in my room Dreaming about you and me"

"When you get hard work you get success, and we put a lot of years into it."

"Anybody can be a role model, anybody can."

"You have to take what you could get when you're getting started."

"Music is not a very stable business. You know it comes and it goes, and so does money. But your education stays with you for the rest of your life and when you have that education and you have nothing fall back on you can go and get a job anywhere."

"We went through a hard time, and we had to turn to music as a means to putting food on the table. And we've been doing it ever since. No regrets either."

"We never thought we'd get this far, but we're here."

"Me siento muy orgullosa de ser Mexicana, yo no tuve la oportunidad de aprender mi Español cuando estaba muy chica, pero ... nunca es tarde para acercarse a sus raíces. (Spanish for, I feel very proud to be Mexican. I didn't have the opportunity to learn Spanish when I was a girl, but ... it's never too late to get in touch with your roots.)"

"Yo soy muy natural, muy sencilla muy honesta y pues siempre voy a ser. (Spanish for, I'm very real, very sincere, and honest, and that's how I'll always be.)"