It kind of opened up people's minds to different things. People are learning what different materials do and are experimenting more.

When people are out having a good time, they don't want to spend it learning how to avoid taking blurry pictures. We've engineered our flagship T-series camera with intelligent, automatic features so people can spend more time having fun and less time understanding technology.

We know that kids with quality early learning opportunities are more likely to graduate from high school, more likely to graduate from college, and more likely to earn higher income. And we know for every one dollar we invest in early education, we save seven dollars down the line in welfare, special education, and criminal justice costs. Our children deserve the chance for an early start on success.

To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.

I don't think they're cost-effective at this point. But a program like this -- this learning by doing -- can lower the costs in the long run.

The benevolence of donors like this has made it possible to create an oasis of learning in a continent fractured by war, poverty, hunger, AIDS, malaria and harsh living conditions.