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April 04, 2012

"He gets full credit or blame for what's happened in this economy and what's happened to gasoline prices under his watch and what's happened to our schools and what's happened to our military."

- REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE MITT ROMNEspeaking about President Obama.
October 08, 2008

"Mugabe was a teacher himself. He knows the potential of teachers as agents for change. That is why he has deliberately destroyed education."

- RAYMOND MAJONGWE,secretary-general of the Progressive Teachers' Union of Zimbabwe after the government canceled the 2008 school year
February 24, 2012

"For someone to go to the papers and say, 'I'm building schools,' without telling the government, I find it a strange way of working."

- JOHN BISIKAMalawi's national secretary for education, science and technology. Education officials in Malawi have attacked Madonna for unveiling plans to build 10 schools in the country, a year after she was forced to scrap a project to build a girls' academy.

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