2nd grade paraeducator, Stonewall Elementary

Education is one of the oldest professions that many countries lack. Everyone deserves to be educated. With the help of professional teachers and caring families, with a little tough love and with educational resources such as media and technology accessible to every child -- they will read, write, calculate and act often in appropriate ways.

Some children learn by critical thinking, memorization or home schooling or by building new skills onto what they already know. And some students need more assistance than others.  

In so many ways, education also serves as a set of social events that will impact a child's fate. Education allows an individual to become his or her own destiny, to define and pursue goals in life as achievement. It also enables children to participate in the life of their community and become independent citizens.