Education can exist in many forms. Education teaches you how to navigate yourself in the system that you're in. Other countries have very different cultures and systems and they simply work differently. So should we teach English to the 'poor' communities? Whats the unintended consequence of that?

Though Sweden also has the problem of security, the basic trust and kindness amongst people provide a relatively harmonious environment to allow for the implementation of high taxes and extensive welfare. In summary, the macro social trust is built on every single smile exchanged between people.

Phnom Penh is a city littered with microfinance institutions. I often fear that social entrepreneurship has become too top-down in its approach, weighed down by fancy jargon. But at OBCR, the average turnaround for a loan is just one week, from application to issuance.

It struck me that the answer to that question actually answered my lingering doubts on what it means to "do good" better. How do we "do good" even better for ourselves, and for the community that we serve? How do we make doing good a self-sustaining cycle?

I feel like a spark ignited in me on this trip, I will definitely return to Cambodia again, and find a way to give back to these wonderful people.

Challenging educators and everyone else present in the audience with the notion that failure is a necessary step along the route to success, educators were encouraged by Huijia’s speech to perceive their students’ failures as not so much as just an outcome but proof that they are actually trying; and trying to be more than who they were before.