Everything that I am today- including my thoughts, my beliefs, and my moral ideology- have been based mostly on, if not entirely, the quality education that has been provided to me. A lot of us complain that we don’t want to go to school, but I don’t think we truly understand how lucky we are. Education is the one thing that can save our country and our world. To educate the coming generation, is to educate the whole country. It provides a global outlook and freedom from ignorance; it teaches how to differentiate between right and wrong and opens up a whole field of opportunities. The kid in the slum in Dharavi might have the brain that could discover the cure for cancer- so could the girl in a poverty-stricken village in the dreary outskirts of Maharashtra. The boy who would have spent his life in a remote village could be a nuclear physicist, a biotech engineer or a Stanford professor. These young minds, when honed and developed, could be the beacons of the future- if you let them be. Is it not a great disservice to the world to let go of all that potential, and all that life? All these children deserve the same opportunities, and the same education, that we do. They have ambition, potential and motivation to succeed- when educated, they have the power to bring the whole country forward, towards progress. We too, have that power, if we choose to use it and donate. “One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world” - Malala Yousafzai.