YES I CAN!

[letric]

A chance encounter in an inner hospital, the decison was made to become a doctor.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/u ... 722435.ece (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/education/article6722435.ece)

[letric]

It was as a result of her chemistry teacher telling her 'yes she can' that gave the confidence to do apply to a medical school to become a doctor. Nothing beats one's willingness to learn, and having encouragement from the teacher.

[letric]

Education is the single best investment one can make in one's financial stability and earning power. As technology transforms the world an education will like grow more important with each coming year. At the same time the constant advancement of technology means that ongoing education , adding and developing skills, is also crucial. Think on it...

[Wayne]

Knowledge is Power......Dat is Y ah duz rite rong an' reed rite

[letric]

The limitation is not in the writing, but in the reading

[letric]

Education polishes good natures, and corrects bad one

[letric]

Every thought that we have, every
image that we create, is a seed of our future reality. To be
happy we must see ourselves as happy. First hold in our mind
the idea of happiness - ask yourself what it means to you on
a mental, emotional and spiritual level. Now imagine yourself
being happy from inside out. What does it feel like? How do
you behave? How do others respond to you?

[letric]

Resolve to thyself: and know, that he
Who finds himself, loses his misery.


'Self-Dependence (1852)

[letric]

Speech and custom may be strange to me.
Even the signposts of the heart are in different
tongues, even in different alphabets. Yet
they all point the same way: I refuse to lose
myself.

[letric]

So what happens when the disadvantaged go to schools. By the time they
are 14 they are two years behind their more privileged peers and by the time
they hit 16 they are massively less likely to go on into higher education, let
alone the best universities. In other words, the gap widens during the school
years, rather than narrows. Four in every 10 children live in homes where
no-one earns a penny. A third of children live in one-parent households.
Last year children under one education authority did worse at A-level than other
children in certain parts of the country. So new schools were built. One
visited does not like being called a school and does not like the children doing so
either. It is a "learning centre". it was there Robyn - a skinny 16 - year
old with a sharp brain and gained the certain knowledge that one day she will
be an attorney, maybe a judge. A couple of years ago she expected to escape
from school at the earliest possible opportunity and go on the dole - just
like many of her friends. Robyn was rescued - by the Aimhigher programme,
which employs so-called mentors to look out for children like her, show them
what they are capable of and help them get there. It works for a chosen
few. It leaves many behind. Robyn knows what she'd do with the educ-
ation system. She'd shut down the private school
I'd make them go to state schools so that everyone has a fair and equal chance
The naive idealism of youth....

[aprillove20]

I agree that advancement of technology means that ongoing education , adding and developing skills.