To understand the future, one must first understand the past.

Gunpowder is my brush, the sky is my canvas.#火药是我的画笔，天空是我的画布。

I quite agree with them that it is not an ennobling experience. Poverty entails fear, and stress, and sometimes depression; it means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts, that is indeed something on which to pride yourself, but poverty itself is romanticised only by fools.

Education is one of the most powerful tools we have for reducing inequality and promoting social mobility.