The power of knowledge against poverty

Knowledge is power. It is a tree that bears fruit of freedom and great strength. Ignorance promotes weaknesses and enslavement. With knowledge, any situation can be conquered.
One disturbing problem in our society is penury which has caused a lot of set backs we experience today. What could be the source and the solution of this debilitating penury?

Poverty of knowledge is the root and source of penury and retrogression.

The lack of, and insufficient knowledge power affects the ability and capacity of man to think thoroughly and determine the cause and the right solution to problems affecting human conditions in their environments.

Knowledge power comes with quality learning and experience accumulated formally and informally from accredited academic institutions and apprenticeship under qualified experts.

Knowledge power is more awesome than political power and even more useful to the country as well as the individual possessor than that which temporarily exist with less certainly of valuable return on investment.

Knowledge gives access to every great desires of man and provides immunity against wants and misery. It guarantee the best conditions and available means to achieve success and actualize out dreams.

The illuminating power of knowledge helps to cast off myths, mysteries, illusions and superstitions and enable us to perceive more accurately all the perspectives involved in a situation which require attention. Greater insight means greater understanding of cause and effect from which the process of solution is determined.

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