Wendy Kopp Quotes

Real change happens a step at a time.

… evolution over revolution.

Very few people transform their country.

In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.

Believe me, the intellectual revolution is going on, and that has to come first before you see the political changes. That's where I'm very optimistic.

The crises of our time, it becomes increasingly clear, are the necessary impetus for the revolution now under way. And once we understand nature's transformative powers, we see that it is our powerful ally, not a force to feared our subdued.

I'm not trying to steer people in a direction. I'm just trying to move them. Wherever it takes them, it doesn't matter to me. I just want them to be moved in one way or another, and that's a hard thing to do, I think.

Change is the end result of all true learning.

If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.

If your life changes, we can change the world, too.

The important thing is that when you come to understand something you act on it, no matter how small that act is. Eventually it will take you where you need to go.

We think it is complicated to change the world. Change comes little by little. Nothing worthwhile can happen in one generation.

I realized if you can change a classroom, you can change a community, and if you change enough communities you can change the world.

There is no force so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.

The voice of passion is better than the voice of reason. The passionless cannot change history.

Born in 1966, I came of age at the dawn of a revolution. The past was gone; we would move on and get over it!

Little changes are the enemies of great changes.

A totally new era in the history of mankind.

It is not enough to reform the educational system. We have to replace the educational system.

Beginning reform is beginning revolution.

... science is the most revolutionary force in the world.

The Arab world’s wave of change was a century in the making, Why expect its effects to become clear in the space of months

Reading equals hope times change.