In no particular order . . .
- Teacher: “When you are learning new concepts, it makes teaching easier.”
- Student: “I am pushing myself because I want to be somebody in life.”
- Head Teacher: “This country will be built on these children and one day things will open up.”
- Teacher: “Challenges tend to trickle down.”
- Student: The benefits of being educated is to know the dos and the don’ts in life.
- Teacher: “I walk 10 kilometers to school every day, and if I walk fast, it takes me 45 minutes.”
- Teacher: “Teaching is a true profession in Zambia.”
- School Director: “The AIDS epidemic took the strong and left the weak.”
- Teacher: “This is math but comprehension is involved.”
- Teacher (asking for another idea from class): “Calvin, add your voice to that one.”
- Student: “I appreciate what I have.”
- Student: “A lion will eat grass if he doesn’t have meat . . . I will do what I have to do now to support my family.”
- Missions Director (discussing the effects of AIDS in the country): We are dealing with generational bookends.
- Director: You can’t fight what God has in store for you.
- American missions pastor: “This experience makes you look beyond your own belly button.”
- Teacher: “Speak up so your friends can hear you.”