your mother and I can't use language to describe the hope you give to our future. Your new life is full of possibilities. We also hope that you will be able to explore them healthily and happily. Your birth, let us have reason to re-examine the world you are going to live in.
12 1, Facebook founder Zuckerberg and his wife, Pooley Sheila, announced the birth of their daughter Max (Max), and issued a public letter saying that they would donate 99% of their Facebook shares in the next life.
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letter to our daughter
Dear Max,
your mother and I can't use language to describe the hope you give to our future. Your new life is full of possibilities. We also hope that you will be able to explore them healthily and happily. Your birth, let us have reason to re-examine the world you are going to live in.
like all parents, we want you to grow up in a better world.
when news headlines often focus on what is wrong, in many ways our world is getting better. Health is improving, poverty is shrinking, knowledge is growing, people are interconnected (connecting). Technological progress in every field means that your life should be obviously better than ours.
we try our best to make it come true, not only because we love you, but also because of our moral responsibility for the next generation of children.
we believe that all life has equal value, not only the people living today, but also the more people living in the future generations. At present, our society has more obligations to enhance the lives of those who will live in the future, not just those who are already there.
but now, we are not always working together to invest resources in the greatest opportunities and problems that your generation will face.
think about disease. At present, the investment in the treatment of patients is 50 times more than that in preventing diseases.
medicine is really known as the history of science less than 100 years ago. We have seen that many diseases have been completely cured, and many others have made great progress. With the rapid development of technology, in the next 100 years, we have enough confidence (real shot) to prevent, cure, and manage most or all of the rest of the disease.
today, most people die from five diseases - heart disease, cancer, stroke, neurodegenerative disease and infectious diseases - we can make faster progress on these and other problems.
whenever we think of your generation and your children, one generation may not have to suffer from the disease, we feel the responsibility to make it a reality and to tilt our investment to the future, which can be achieved. Both your mother and I want to do your best.
it takes a certain time to cure the disease. In a short period of five years or ten years, we may not see how much we have played. But in the long run, the seeds planted today will grow, and one day, you and your children will see only one scene in our imagination: a world without disease and pain.
there are a lot of similar opportunities. If the whole society puts more energy into these great challenges, we will leave you with a better world for this generation.
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your hopes are centered on two ideas: (advance) human potential and equality.
expanding potential is the boundary that drives mankind's great life.
can you learn and experience one hundred times as much as we do today?
can your generation cure diseases and get a longer and healthier life?
can we connect the world to enable you to reach every view, everyone and every opportunity?
can we use cleaner energy so that you can invent the way we can not conceive today to protect the environment?
can we cultivate such an entrepreneurial spirit that enables you to build any cause to solve any challenge so as to achieve peace and prosperity?
promoting equality is the guarantee that everyone can have such an opportunity - regardless of nationality, family or birth environment.
our society must promote equality, not only for equality or charity considerations, but for greater human progress.
today we achieve far less potential than we are endowed with. (Today we are robbed of the potential so many have to to). The only way to achieve our potential is to focus on the talents, ideas and contributions of everyone around the world.
can our generation eliminate poverty and hunger?
can we provide basic health care for everyone?
can we build an inclusive and pleasant welcoming community?
can we foster the relationship between peace and understanding among people in different countries?
can we really give everyone the right to be a woman, a child, a minority, an immigrant, and a the unconnected.
If our generation has made the right investment, the answer to each of these questions is "yes" - and is expected to be achieved in your life.
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these missions -- expanding human potential and promoting equality -- all the work needed to achieve these goals requires new ways of achieving it.
we have to invest for 25 years, 50 years or even 100 years. These biggest challenges require a very long span of thinking, and short-term thinking is of no help.
we must try our best to understand the people we want to serve. If we do not understand the needs and aspirations of their communities, we can not give people rights.
we must develop (build) technology to make changes. Many institutions invest in coping with these challenges, but the most important progress comes from the increase in productivity brought about by innovation.
we must take part in policies and publicity to influence debates. Many agencies have no intention to do so, but progress must be supported by sustainable sports.
we must support the strongest and most independent leaders in all fields. Partnership with experts, rather than our own leadership, will enable us to accomplish our mission more effectively.
we must take risks today and accumulate experience for tomorrow. Our academic qualifications are shallow, and many of the things we are trying to do are not effective, but we will pay attention to listening and learning and keep improving.
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our experience in personalized learning, Internet access, community education and health has shaped our concept of life.
our generation grows up in the classroom, where we learn the same content at the same pace, regardless of our interests and needs.
your generation can set goals for what they want to be, such as engineers, health workers, writers, or community leaders. You will have such a technology to let you know how to learn best and where to pay attention. You will make progress in the areas you are most interested in, and get enough help in areas you think are most challenging. You will explore courses that are not offered in schools today. Your teachers will also have better tools and materials to help you achieve your goals.
even better, all the students in the world will be able to use personalized learning tools on the Internet, even if they do not live near good schools. Of course, in addition to technology, we need to put more effort into everyone's life to have a fair starting point. But personalized learning can provide children with better education and more equal opportunities in an extensible way.
we are developing such technology now, and the results are hopeful. Students not only have better performance in the exam, but also get the skills and confidence to learn anything.
this journey is just beginning. Technology and teaching will improve rapidly every year after you go to school.
your mother and I have taught students, and we see what it takes to make wishes come true. This will require cooperation with the strongest leaders in the education sector to help schools around the world adopt personalized learning. This will require a close relationship with the community, which we embarked on in the Bay Area Community of San Francisco. This will require developing new technologies and trying new ideas. And before we reach these goals, we will make some mistakes and learn some lessons.
but when we think of the world that we can create for your generation, our society has the responsibility to make investment focus on the future and make this dream come true.
work together, we can do it. And when we do that, personalized learning will not only help students in good schools, but also provide equal opportunities for everyone who access the Internet.
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