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  • Education can significantly improve one's life:
        · Learning to read, reason and communicate helps people make informed choices and understand events around them.
        · Educated people have more job opportunities and earn more, which improves their quality of life.
     
  • Skilled workers enable a country to develop and become richer, which benefits everyone. Without education, inventions like electricity, medicine, cars, computers, video games, and much more wouldn't exist!
     
  • Almost 115 million children around the world don't go to school. Poor kids often have to work to help their families survive. Also, more girls than boys are out of school because parents often think it's not important for them to learn.

1. More Girls Drop Out
   of School than Boys

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