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Impacts of education :


Investing in education means investing in future generations. The positive results are endless.
 
Education promotes human development and capacity building. This enables individuals to make positive contributions to the world in which they live.
 
With education, people are likely to choose the future they want for themselves and their families, based on what they value most.
 
It is important to use a rights-based approach in the development process. This means that local populations benefit from the exploitation of their resources and assets by gaining greater capacity - skills and abilities that will enable them to collectively grow through the process and progress toward greater self-sufficiency and economic participation at the international level. Such an approach results in a win-win situation for both the resource developers and the local people, not to mention a climate conducive to expanded business activity and investment.
 
Only through education can local populations become sufficiently empowered to participate actively in how their country works. Education enables them to make more informed choices about the values they want to follow and the decisions they want to make about their community and the use of its assets.
"Children are the greatest natural resource of any country, and educating these children is at the root of solving our largest and most complex problems"
Nicholas Negroponte
An educated woman, for example, is able to care for herself and her family better. She can ensure her children eat nourishing food, drink safe water and practice proper hygiene. Similarly, she can find ways to help increase her family's income, perhaps by taking a micro loan and becoming a small entrepreneur, by breeding animals more productively and selling them and their products at market, or by increasing the yield of her crops and their resistance to drought and pests. She will also be more inclined to send all her children to school - sons and daughters - and to help them stay in school until they graduate with useful, practical skills.