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While he took care to not disparage those who enter high-paying careers directly after graduation, Gates said that the greatest impact will be made by those who devote their lives to fighting poverty, improving global health, and raising the standard of education.
Gates said that both health and education can be improved by simple fixes with increased research, noting that while teacher quality has a significant role in improving student performance, it remains unclear what exactly constitutes an exemplary teacher.
“Having awareness amongst these students about the challenges in education, the challenges in poor countries, I think that’s critical and it will help us make a lot of progress to have their open-minded, energetic thinking applied to these issues,” he...
James F. L. Croft, a doctoral candidate at the Graduate School of Education, said that issues of discrimination and normalcy are deeply rooted in American culture, adding that “attitudes around sex and sexuality are really screwed up.”
He added that sex education propagates political and social opposition to open and honest sexuality, for gay and straight couples alike.