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About IDEAS
Experience Seventy Big Thinkers
"Organized" by Seth Godin
About IDEAS
Experience Seventy Big Thinkers
"Organized" by Seth Godin
"Here are more than seventy big thinkers, each sharing an idea for you to think about as we head into the new year. From bestselling author Elizabeth Gilbert to brilliant tech thinker Kevin Kelly, from publisher Tim O'Reilly to radio host Dave Ramsey, there are some important people riffing about important ideas here. The ebook includes Tom Peters, Jackie Huba and Jason Fried, along with Gina Trapani, Bill Taylor and Alan Webber." - Seth Godin
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A chapter excerpt from the book, by John Wood:
Ripple
Education has a ripple effect.
One drop can
initiate a cascade of possibility, each concentric
circle gaining in size and traveling further.
If you get education right, you get many things
right: escape from poverty, better family health,
and improved status of women.
Educate a girl, and you educate her children and
generations to follow.
Yet for hundreds of millions of kids in the
developing world, the ripple never begins. Instead,
there's a seemingly inescapable whirlpool of
poverty. In the words of a headmaster I once met
in Nepal: "We are too poor to afford education.
The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago.
The second best time is now.
John Wood is Founder & Executive Chairman, Room to Read,
which has built over 850 schools and opened over 7,500 libraries
serving 3 million children. He is the author of "Leaving Microsoft
to Change the World."
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