All of the nominees had previously won the annual World's Children's Prize which is organized by The World's Children's Prize for the Rights of the Child (WCPRC) -- the world's largest educational program promoting young people's rights.

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"It's a great educational moment for people in general, " he said.

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"It's a fun and educational thing to do for people who are married with children and need a legitimate reason to leave home, " she says.

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People without a college degree felt a lot more confused, helpless and fatalistic than people who had graduated college - so really suggesting that there's an educational component here.

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The unique ability of technology to enable today's limited educational resources to scale quickly and affordably across great distances to a great many people makes it an essential ingredient in our efforts to transform education.

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But even if the paper's argument is correct, it ignores the basic fact that so many people have become so good at passing their educational privileges on to their children.

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