Sunny Varkey is a non-resident Indian, Dubai-based education entrepreneur and education philanthropist. He is the founder and chairman of the global advisory and educational management firm GEMS Education, which is the largest operator of private kindergarten-to-grade-12 schools in the world, with a network of 52 schools in 4 countries. He is the first education entrepreneur to join the pledge.
Inspirational Sunny Varkey Quotes:
1. “Everyone deserves a good teacher.” Sunny Varkey
2. “Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.” Sunny Varkey
3. “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” Sunny Varkey
4. “Real education should consist of drawing the goodness and the best out of our own students. What better books can there be than the book of humanity.” Sunny Varkey
5. “I believe that education is all about being excited about something. Seeing passion and enthusiasm helps push an educational message.” Sunny Varkey
6. “Education must not simply teach work it must teach Life.” Sunny Varkey
7. “Education is what survives when what has been learned is forgotten.” Sunny Varkey
8. “Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming.” Sunny Varkey
9. “No one should teach who is not in love with teaching.” Sunny Varkey
10. “Our task, regarding creativity, is to help children climb their own mountains, as high as possible. No one can do more.” Sunny Varkey
11. “Every problem is a gift without problems, we would not grow.” Sunny Varkey
12. “What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches.” Sunny Varkey
13. “Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.” Sunny Varkey
14. “You only have to do a few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong.” Sunny Varkey
15. “It is greater work to educate a child, in the true and larger sense of the world, than to rule a state.” Sunny Varkey
16. “And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.” Sunny Varkey
17. “Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.” Sunny Varkey
18. “There’s no shortage of remarkable ideas, what’s missing is the will to execute them.” Sunny Varkey
19. “The test of a good teacher is not how many questions he can ask his pupils that they will answer readily, but how many questions he inspires them to ask him which he finds it hard to answer.” Sunny Varkey
20. “I don’t know the word ‘quit.’ Either I never did, or I have abolished it.” Sunny Varkey
21. “Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.” Sunny Varkey
22. “Don’t let schooling interfere with your education.” Sunny Varkey
23. “Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.” Sunny Varkey
24. “An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.” Sunny Varkey
25. “It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.” Sunny Varkey