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America's schools are crumbling
The price of complacency — the future.
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world — Nelson Mandela
Education is an opportunity.
Imagine if it wasn't.
Steve Jobs wouldn't have reinvented the communications paradigm; he would have become a monk. Elon Musk wouldn't have reinvented the automobile industry; he would have fixed carts in South Africa. I wouldn't be writing on Medium; I would be taking cows for grazing in rural India.
Education isn't about learning.
Many people think education is about learning or a tool to make individuals acquire the knowledge they need to survive in the world.
It is all of that, but…
Education offers a lot more. It builds your future, your community's future, and your country's future.
Economists found that countries whose students scored high on tests in the 1960s had better growth rates for the next 40 years than countries whose students scored low.
With Knowledge Comes Growth
Eduction is a mirror to a country's future.
