Knowledge Is Not Power, Knowledge Properly Applied Is Power

Just like a hammer means nothing until someone lifts it and smacks a nail with it, knowledge is not powerful until it is used and applied.

And if you are able to find people that believe in you, cherish them as much as you possibly can and take the time to thank them for having faith in you. Having someone look you in the eyes and tell you that they believe in you is one of the most encouraging experience for any human being.

-wanna add fuel to the fire through my writing-

Nur Mut!

"Was immer du tun kannst, oder träumst es tun zu können, fang damit an!! Mut hat Genie, Kraft und Zauber in sich" (Goethe)

Apa pun yang dapat kau lakukan atau impikan, Mulailah. Dalam keberanian terdapat kecerdasan, kekuatan dan keajaiban. Mulailah sekarang!

Sometimes in life you get lucky

If you give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. But if you give him a fishing rod, you feed him for a lifetime.

Fischerism

• A doctor must work eighteen hours a day and seven days a week. If you cannot console yourself to this, get out of the profession.

• A good teacher must know the rules; a good pupil, the exceptions.

• Diagnosis is not the end, but the beginning of practice.

• Don't despise empiric truth. Lots of things work in practice for which the laboratory has never found proof.

• Facts are not science — as the dictionary is not literature.

• Here's good advice for practice: go into partnership with nature; she does more than half the work and asks none of the fee.

• The great doctors all got their education off dirt pavements and poverty — not marble floors and foundations.

• The specialist is a man who fears other subjects.

• None of the great discoveries was made by a "specialist" or a "researcher".

• Research has been called good business, a necessity, a gamble, a game. It is none of these — it's a state of mind.

• When a man lacks mental balance in pneumonia he is said to be delirious. When he lacks mental balance without the pneumonia, he is pronounced insane by all smart doctors.

• Whenever ideas fail, men invent words.

• I find four great classes of students: The dumb who stay dumb. The dumb who become wise. The wise who go dumb. The wise who remain wise.

Children have rights

The Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) is the most widely ratified human rights treaty in history. It sets forth a wide range of provisions that encompass civil rights and freedoms, family environment, basic health and welfare, education, leisure and cultural activities and special protection measures.

The Convention has several "foundation principles" that underpin all other children's rights. These include: non-discrimination; best interests of the child; right to survival and development; and views of the child.

Non-discrimination means that all children have the same right to develop their potential -- all children, in all situations, all of the time, everywhere.

The best interests of the child must be "a primary consideration" in all actions and decisions concerning her or him, and must be used to resolve confusion between different rights.

The right to survival and development underscores the vital importance of ensuring access to basic services and to equity of opportunity for children to achieve their full development.

The views of the child means that the voice of children must be heard and respected in all matters concerning their rights. Countries must promote children's active, free and meaningful participation in decision-making that affects them.

The CRC has been ratified by over 190 countries since it was adopted unanimously by the United Nations General Assembly in November 1989. Ratification commits countries to a code of binding obligations towards their children. Thanks to the CRC, child rights are now at the cutting edge of the global struggle for human rights, to be ensured by adult society as a matter of legal obligation, moral imperative and development priority. In the years since the CRC was adopted, the world has seen dramatic gains for children.

However, children's rights are intimately tied to those of women. Realizing the rights and equality of women is not only a core development goal in itself, but it is also the key to the survival and development of children and to building healthy families, communities and nations. Discrimination against women hurts both women and the next generation of children, boys and girls alike. Starting even before birth, a child's health and development prospects are closely linked with the mother's health and socio-economic status. Women are, moreover, the primary care-givers for children. Resources put in the hands of women are more likely to be used to benefit children. The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) (external link) deals with countries' obligations to enact appropriate legislation, administrative and other measures, with the aim of achieving equality between men and women in all spheres of public and private life, including the family.

Source:Unicef