Everyone agrees that the failure of our high schools is tragic. It’s bad business, and it’s bad policy. But we act as if it can’t be helped. It can be helped. We designed these high schools; we can redesign them.
MELINDA GATESWe look in our own backyard and say, ‘How do we help at-risk families, at risk youth? How do we think through some of the problems affecting the Pacific Northwest and make some change there?’
More Melinda Gates Quotes
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It is still just unbelievable to us that diarrhea is one of the leading causes of child deaths in the world.
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In different places you run into myths around vaccination or around family planning. In the United States, one of the myths that existed for a long time, that has been completely debunked, was that autism was linked to a vaccine.
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Having children made us look differently at all these things that we take for granted, like taking your child to get a vaccine against measles or polio.
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Helping people doesn’t have to be an unsound financial strategy.
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The premise of this foundation is one life on this planet is no more valuable than the next.
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Women and girls should be able to determine their own future, no matter where they’re born.
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As a woman finds economic opportunity, even if she’s only earning a couple of dollars a day, if she can save it on her phone, she then makes different decisions for her household than her husband might.
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Now we just really need to do the work, which we’re doing, to get contraceptives out to women worldwide.
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I think the Americans need to understand that a lot of times the children are bored in school, and that is why they are not staying in.
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Our desire to bring every good thing to our children is a force for good throughout the world. It’s what propels societies forward.
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It’s important to remember that behind every data point is a daughter, a mother, a sister—a person with hopes and dreams.
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Women are the centre of the family. It’s the woman who decides what’s eaten in the house, when to have the kids vaccinated; everything that has to do with the children’s health revolves around her.
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Now, as smartphones are coming up, there are all kinds of apps that will start to be developed that will help women.
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We have to be careful in how we use this light shined on us.
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After a number of years dating, we decided we were good partners.
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