October 17, 2014
Education: The Secret Weapon Against Destruction
There is a famous Jamaican proverb that says, “A cow never realizes the use of his tail until he loses it”, which simply means that a person rarely understands the value of something until it is lost. This summer during my internship at the Gbowee Peace Foundation Africa, I realized the value of my tail-education, as well as saw the ramifications that an inadequate educational structure has on a country’s stability. In this presentation, I intend to make the case that education is often the missing link in many societies using Liberia and the Ebola outbreak as an example.
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