Greg Mortenson Quotes About Culture

Quotes about: Culture

• Once you educate the boys, they tend to leave the villages and go search for work in the cities, but the girls stay home, become leaders in the community, and pass on what they've learned. If you really want to change a culture, to empower women, improve basic hygiene and health care, and fight high rates of infant mortality, the answer is to educate girls.

  Greg Mortenson

  Girl, Home, Fighting

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• If you really want to change a culture to empower women improve basic hygiene and health care and fight high rates of infant mortality the answer is to educate girls.

  Greg Mortenson

  Girl, Fighting, Hygiene

  "Three Cups of Tea". Book by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin, 2007.

• If you really want to change a culture... empower women.

  Greg Mortenson

  Empowering, Culture, Want

  Greg Mortenson (2008). “Three Cups Of Tea”, p.329, Penguin UK

• One thing that I noticed is having met some former Taliban is even they, as children, grew up being indoctrinated. They grew up in violence. They grew up in war. They were taught to hate. They were, they grew up in very ignorant cultures where they didn't learn about the outside world.

  Greg Mortenson

  Children, War, Hate

  "Bill Moyers Journal", www.pbs.org. January 15, 2010.

• In America we now live more in fear than in hope, and eventually that will lead to ignorance and hatred. We need to have optimism that the world can be a better place, and we can leave a legacy for our children. Being bilingual, travel and studying geography, culture and religions can help.

  Greg Mortenson

  Children, Ignorance, Optimism

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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