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Starting From Scratch: The Early Days of Milton Hershey
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| “A model town, a modern factory, a substantial business, these are the realizations of one businessman’s dreams.” - The Business World, June 1903 |
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Lesson #4: Bend the Rules
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| “Rules are sometimes a problem when you’re a creative entrepreneur,” says Simmons. |
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Losing His Virginity: How Branson Achieved Success
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| From a dyslexic high school dropout to a thriving billionaire and adventure capitalist knighted by the Queen of England, Branson carved a unique path to success using his personality as his greatest leverage. His career has spanned over thirty years and his brand has become one of the most recognized globally. How did he do it? |
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Lesson #1: Learn For Life
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| “If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him,” said Franklin. “An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.” |
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Lesson #5: You Are Worth More than Your Net Worth
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| Both before and after Candler became an internationally successful businessman, he had a clear grasp of the fact that he, and every other person along with him, was in possession of a number of intangible assets that went far further in determining his potential for success than did the amount of money he had in his bank account. After all, with less than $2 in his pockets when he first arrived in Atlanta, how else could the astounding success of Candler in starting up the Coca-Cola Company be explained? |
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The Man Behind Coca-Cola: The Early Years of Asa Candler
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| It has become such an integral part of American culture that when the Coca-Cola Company tried to change the original formula for its flagship drink in the mid-1980s, the public backlash was overwhelming; the Old Cola Drinkers of America was even established and tried to sue the company. Today, Coke is sold in the stores, restaurants, and vending machines of over 200 countries. The company is one of the largest in America, and also the largest manufacturer, distributor and marketer of nonalcoholic drink concentrates in the world, with over $24 billion in revenue and 71,000 employees. The man behind all of that growth is Asa Candler. |
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Cooking Up a Storm: Fields Opens Up Shop
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| After realizing how unsatisfied with her life she had become, Fields decided something needed to change. And, she knew instantly what it was. “In that room, that evening, I made a decision that I was going to go into the cookie business,” says Fields, “that that was my calling, that that was what I could do best.” |
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Lesson #1: It Is Never To Late To Get Your Start
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| “When we began to make $10 a day, [my ex-husband] thought that was enough, thought I ought to be satisfied,” said Walker. “But I was convinced that my hair preparation would fill a long-felt want. And when we found it impossible to agree, due to his narrowness of vision, I embarked on business for myself.” |
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Lesson #2: Success is Built not Born
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| “I am a woman who came from the cotton fields of the South,” said Walker. “From there I was promoted to the washtub. From there I was promoted to the cook kitchen. And from there I promoted myself into the business of manufacturing hair goods and preparations....I have built my own factory on my own ground.” |
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From Menial Worker to Millionaire: How Walker Achieved Success
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| In 1917, Walker commissioned a 34-room mansion to be built for her on the Hudson River. It was her dream house, something she had worked for years to be able to afford. But when area residents found out who their new neighbour was going to be, they were less than happy. “One of the race,” wrote one newspaper, “is invading the domains of New York’s aristocracy.” The New York Times even wrote, “No woman of her race could own such a place. Does she really intend to live there?” |
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Lesson #1: “The human brain must continue to frame the problems for the electronic machine to solve.”
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| For a young boy with no formal education, Sarnoff proved to have an unlikely strong tendency towards the two tracks of invention and innovation. Indeed, his musings from almost 90 years ago remain at the centre of today’s digital age. |
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Lesson #5: “I let negativity roll off me like water off a duck’s back.”
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| Growing up, Foreman’s life was not an easy one. He experienced one setback after another, each threatening to veer him off course towards greatness. Foreman, however, managed to overcome. From acknowledging his own weaknesses to avoiding the destructive power of negativity, Foreman’s career is evidence that greatness can often come from a path of greater struggle. |
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The Seventh Commandment of Leadership-Self Management and Relationship Power
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| The most difficult person that you will manage in your leadership career is you.
That is a very hard statement to get your hands around and grasp but managing yourself is a very challenging task. Without good self-management, the delicate balance between leader and follower is jeopardized. You can loose credibility. You can damage relationships. You can completely become irrelevant.
First, a little background on self management. Self management is half of the science of emotional intelligence. Emotional intelligence tells us that eighty percent of our reactions, responses and projections are driven by emotion and not by logic or processed thought. |
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Why developing your Sales Managers is the key to your sales success
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| It may surprise you to discover that many Sales Managers learn how to be a Manager on their own.
According to the latest international study on Sales Training and Sales Force Effectiveness, many Sales Managers are given very little or no support when it comes to being a competent, effective Sales Manager. In fact, many Sales Managers reported that they were given no formal training in Sales Management practices, either before or during their tenure as a Sales Manager.
The study reported that Sales Management training is the category of sales training that is addressed with the least frequency, in fact it is less than annually or not at all. |
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Obama Tell The Nation's Students
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| On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 in a speech reminiscent of the challenges of entrepreneurship, president Obama admonished the young minds to never give up. Once again, president Obama has used his oratorical skill in finally quenched the fire that encapsulate his planned speech to the nation's student and stirred us all to challenge obstacles and actualize our goals. Obama told the students "Take responsibility and refuse to let failure define you"... The president affirmed "If you quit, you are not just quitting on yourself, you are quitting on your country".
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Variables for Wealth Creations-The Roles of the Internet
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| The major variable for creating your wealth is you. Just like me, you were neither born with some millions working and waiting in the bank for you to clock 18 nor were you born with a last name that could open doors of influence, and opportunities. We share the reality of challenging the burden of today to create an endurable wealth that we can enjoy today and pass on to our coming generations. The choice between maintaining the status quo and pass it on as received or becoming a pacesetter.......... |
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Palindromes Make You Live Longer
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| Dr. Yacoov Stern at College of Physicians and Surgeons,
Columbia University says, Cognitive-Reserve permits you
to reduce dementia and Alzheimer's by lifelong learning. |
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Ideas and Action
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| Anyone can have a great idea, lots of them: million dollar ideas; ideas that will change their life; ideas that will change other people’s lives; ideas that will change the world. But any idea that stays on the chalkboard is worth only the chalk it's written with. |
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Schooling vs. Education
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| My Executive Assistant, Laurie Magers, has worked with me over thirty-three years. Although her formal education ended with the tenth grade, Laurie is far more educated and competent than any college graduate I have ever had in that position. Here’s why. |
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Your Core Desire for Learning
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| With so much to learn, it can be difficult to know where to begin. Focus on your Core Desires as a way of defining the direction of your learning. This will allow you to maintain peak interest while collecting information and processing data. If you are learning about things you are not interested in, your enthusiasm will quickly wane.
Suppose you have a Core Desire to learn how to ski. Eagerly you seek to accomplish this desire-you buy the best equipment, take ski lessons, and willingly stand in line in the cold. You spend time listening to other skiers reveal the finer points of the sport. You ride the ski lifts even if you are afraid of heights. Because you have this Core Desire, you go all out. |
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How to Achieve Your Financial Desires
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| I went from a low income to being in the top 0.5 percent in the nation in earnings in less than two years-and I only have a high school education. I am living proof that the lack of a formal education is not a hindrance to high income or happiness. I was driven by a Core Desire to make money because I hated being broke and I loved what money would give me. These are the real reasons people make money. Many different vehicles exist to make money, but it's your desire to make money that will drive you to success in that area. |
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Real Men Stage Houses
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| The Staging Diva®, Debra Gould, talks about men working in the female-dominated field of home staging. |
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The Masculine Mystique - Field of Lost Dreams
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| Culture has a positive role to play in nurturing a young man into an adult. At midlife, that culture must be challenged, otherwise it can strangle a lifetime of dreams. |
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Professional Work at Home Jobs: Its a New World!
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| Work at home jobs have gone beyond stuffing envelops and are now more sophisticated and professional. The internet now provides scads of work at home jobs that not only pay well but offer opportunities to grow. |
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What Can Managers Do To Instill Excellence
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| Excellence everywhere does not just happen simply because an organization has a good product or offers a needed service. The underlying purpose of all organizational actions must have excellence built into them. It must become “how we collectively do things.” |
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Organizational Excellence
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| Excellence everywhere does not just happen simply because an organization has a good product or offers a needed service. The underlying purpose of all organizational actions must have excellence built into them. It must become “how we collectively do things.” |
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6.3 Participatory skill development: For-profit and NGO training activities
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| 'Participatory skill development' is perhaps the best term to describe the underlying rationale of an altogether new approach to skill development among the poor that has been adopted by many NGOs. |
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4.2.2 Training provision for women
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| The identification of women's training needs has often been flawed because "women are rarely treated as knowing what they need" (ibid: 30). The available evidence tends to show that poor women in most developing countries are usually most interested in skills training that meets their own immediate 'practical gender needs' as opposed to longer term, "strategic gender needs" that directly tackle the basic underlying causes of female subordination (see Moser, 1989). |
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4.1.2 Enterprises with growth potential: The demand for training
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| Most training strategies in the informal sector have targeted manufacturing microenterprises that are considered to have some growth potential. However, even within this relatively better-off segment of the informal sector, the effective demand for training has frequently been found to be quite limited. |
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CONCLUSION: HUMAN CAPITAL FORMATION AND FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
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| The literature on human capital formation and FDI provides tentative answers to
the five questions posed in the introduction of this paper. |
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Human Capital Formation by MNEs: Supporting Formal Education
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| While training is no doubt the major source of HRD activities undertaken by the
MNEs, they can also contribute to the HRD of host developing countries by mobilising
formal education. One of the MNEs that has invested substantially in formal education is
Intel. They have invested in curriculum, educational equipment, infrastructure and
technical support to almost all countries where they have production facilities, including
Argentina, Brazil, Costa Rica, China, Malaysia, South Korea, India, Russia, Poland,
Ireland and South Africa. |
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Policies to Develop Human Resources
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| Now that the importance of human capital in attracting FDI is understood, the next
question is: what are the past HRD policy experiences of host developing countries that
have strived to attract inward FDI? This section focuses on formal education policies to
attract FDI. While vocational training policies also help improve human resources of host
developing countries, they are likely to be more important after some influx of FDI into
the economy. |
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Prospects of Human Capital in the Future: Background
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| Future prospects of human capital development can be seen from the current
trends in education among the children as well as the training efforts made in
enterprises. |
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Trends in Human Capital Formation in Developing Countries: Background
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| The level of human capital in developing countries has on average improved over
the past three decades, owing to enhanced government commitments in formal
education and vocational training as well as increased incentives of firms to provide
enterprise training. |
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Trends in FDI in Developing Countries: Background
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| During the past two decades, a number of developing countries witnessed a
growing importance of FDI as the primary source of financial capital flows into their
economy. FDI brings not only increased access to foreign exchange, trade and
employment, but also new products, information and technology. It is no coincidence that
this rapid growth of FDI was accompanied by an increase in the level of human capital.
The latter was achieved by strong government commitments to expand formal education
and vocational training along with improved enterprise efforts to improve training
opportunities for workers. This section looks at recent trends in both FDI and HRD in
order to highlight the magnitude of this issue as well as to explain some of the key issues
raised in this paper. |
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Summary: HUMAN CAPITAL FORMATION AND FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
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| This paper synthesises the existing literature on human capital formation and
foreign direct investment (FDI) in developing countries. |
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Preface: HUMAN CAPITAL FORMATION AND FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
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| The main theme for the programme of work 2001-2002 at the Development Centre
was Globalisation and Governance. Multinational enterprises (MNEs) are a key actor of
globalisation and also raise numerous governance issues. Accordingly, their role in poor
countries has always interested the development community |
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What is a Life Coach?
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| As a home-based business owner and avid network marketer, I am always finding myself at various meet-and-greets throughout Chicagoland. Like a good little schoolgirl, my 30-second elevator speech is well-prepared to roll off my tongue at every introduction. My new acquaintances have a knack for exchanging quizzical looks at the end of my spiel before asking, "yeah, um, so what is a life coach?" Exasperated that my prepared speech is never enough, I began researching the definition of life coach in order to develop a more refined explanation to have at the ready. The following is what I have come up with. |
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Do You Need Experience to Own a Franchise?
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| Many people think that because they don’t have a formal education or do not have a lot of business experience, then their options for business ownership are very limited. However, that isn’t necessarily the case with franchises and business opportunities. |
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Other formal education Related Articles
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Do You Need Experience to Own a Franchise?
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| Many people think that because they don’t have a formal education or do not have a lot of business experience, then their options for business ownership are very limited. However, that isn’t necessarily the case with franchises and business opportunities. |
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Human Capital Formation by MNEs: Supporting Formal Education
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| While training is no doubt the major source of HRD activities undertaken by the
MNEs, they can also contribute to the HRD of host developing countries by mobilising
formal education. One of the MNEs that has invested substantially in formal education is
Intel. They have invested in curriculum, educational equipment, infrastructure and
technical support to almost all countries where they have production facilities, including
Argentina, Brazil, Costa Rica, China, Malaysia, South Korea, India, Russia, Poland,
Ireland and South Africa. |
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7.3.2 Training as a basic social service: Mainstreaming skills development for the poor
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| Redressing inequities and under-provision in the formal education system is of vital importance, both for achieving a more equitable allocation of jobs in the formal sector for women and other disadvantaged groups and, more widely, for sustained poverty reduction. |
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How Simulations, Games, Virtual Worlds, and Web 2.0 are Revolutionizing Education and Training
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| There is a quiet revolution happening in education and training around the world. Simulations, games, virtual worlds, and Web 2.0 are quickly changing perceptions of how we can and do learn. Some even anticipate that they will change learning more in the next 10 years than anything has since the invention of the printing press.
This revolutionary change has the potential to impact formal and casual learning at all levels of society, from public education, home learning, corporate training, military and combat readiness, to economic development and nation-building.
Read on to learn more about these drivers of change and how they can be harnessed for individual and organizational success. |
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How to Achieve Your Financial Desires
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| I went from a low income to being in the top 0.5 percent in the nation in earnings in less than two years-and I only have a high school education. I am living proof that the lack of a formal education is not a hindrance to high income or happiness. I was driven by a Core Desire to make money because I hated being broke and I loved what money would give me. These are the real reasons people make money. Many different vehicles exist to make money, but it's your desire to make money that will drive you to success in that area. |
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Lesson #1: “The human brain must continue to frame the problems for the electronic machine to solve.”
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| For a young boy with no formal education, Sarnoff proved to have an unlikely strong tendency towards the two tracks of invention and innovation. Indeed, his musings from almost 90 years ago remain at the centre of today’s digital age. |
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Seek Career Change Advice from an Experienced Mentor
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| If you are looking for career change advice, seek it from someone who has been through a career change themselves. Described here is my story having been through two significant career changes. I discuss how self-education and initiative can enable any change in career, that it is within reach for anyone, and how it can reinvent your own world and do so without the time and expense of going back to formal education. |
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Formal Education Vs. Self-Education
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| You will determine what you become and the money you will make ...If you invest in your self-education.
“Formal education will make you a living. Self-education will make you a fortune” - Jim Rohn |
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Schooling vs. Education
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| My Executive Assistant, Laurie Magers, has worked with me over thirty-three years. Although her formal education ended with the tenth grade, Laurie is far more educated and competent than any college graduate I have ever had in that position. Here’s why. |
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The Relevance & Reality of Education
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| We cannot deny that education is important and useful. A good education is critical for navigating through today’s, often times, confusing world. A better quality education may spell the difference between more opportunities and missed opportunities. Education arms us with the knowledge and know-how, married with the know-who we will build and develop. Education helps eradicate ignorance, and the prejudices and discrimination that it breeds. |
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