How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #7
"The children of all those other villages that tried to bribe you need schools, too." (15.38)
Mortenson has to make difficult moral choices, like building schools in corrupt villages. He has to remember that the children aren't the corrupt ones, and they're the ones who will truly benefit.
Quote #8
"I don't want to teach Pakistan's children to think like Americans," Mortenson says. "I just want them to have a balanced, nonextremist education. That idea is at the very center of what we do." (16.73)
Mortenson's education isn't about propaganda, like the education in the Wahhabi madrassas. He simply wants to give students the basic building blocks—reading, writing, 'rithmetic—to grow and thrive.
Quote #9
"Yes, like the bee house. Wahhabi madrassa have many students hidden inside." (19.10)
It's easy to think that education = good, but in the case of Wahhabi madrassa, which train their students as though they're drones in radical Islam, that kind of education might be worse than no education at all.