"Any solution to a problem changes the problem."

-- R. W. Johnson

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“Around 80% of Liberians are unemployed and only half of all children go to primary school. Just one in 20 go on to secondary school. Young children are on the streets instead of in the classrooms. We are not giving them the opportunity to learn and they will struggle to get jobs when they grow up.”
“These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world.”
“[B]riefing is not reading. In fact it is the antithesis of reading. Briefing is terse, factual and to the point. Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting. Briefing closes down a subject, reading opens it up.”
“A child who is disciplined will be more obedient and also more organized as a student.”
“Be careful what you say. It comes true. It comes true. I had to leave home in order to see the world logically, logic the new way of seeing. I learned to think that mysteries are for explanation. I enjoy the simplicity. Concrete pours out of my mouth to cover the forests with freeways and sidewalks. Give me plastics, periodical tables, TV dinners with vegetables no more complex than peas mixed with diced carrots. Shine floodlights into dark corners: no ghosts.”
“Money cannot purchase joy. It buys temporary distractions.”
“My own position is so far on the obsessive side of preparation and professionalism that I fear my point of view is not going to be shared by anyone.”

Source : "Jonny Wilkinson's autobiography reveals him to be a tortured soul" by Paul Rees, www.theguardian.com. November 10, 2011.
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