In contrast to Egypt, where America had influence on both Hosni Mubarak and the army it had helped to equip, it had no serious leverage on the ground in Iran, and its verbal support might have damaged the credibility of the very people it was trying to help.

ECONOMIST: Lexington

It is not just Egypt where the universities provide training for public-sector jobs that are no longer abundant yet fail to equip students with what they need to thrive in a market economy.

ECONOMIST: The new world of work needs to be fair as well as efficient

Whereas schools used to be able to equip students with the knowledge and skills that would serve them for a working lifetime, this is no longer possible in a workplace characterized by continuous change in a competitive global environment.

UNESCO: II Part Analytic Section

No single person can train all the math and science teachers we'll need to equip our children for the future, or build the roads and networks and research labs that will bring new jobs and businesses to our shores.

BBC: Obama inauguration: Full text