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If, like me, you have the opportunity in your career to give back to your community or your country, do so. The world is facing unprecedented environmental challenges and social strain is evident everywhere. Education has a private and a public benefit, and an elite education is likely to enhance the opportunity to build wealth and security for yourself and your family. But some of the greatest rewards and satisfactions in life come from using your education and achievements to lift up people you might never meet. You don't have to have an education to do that but, as in most things, it will certainly help.
To everyone reading this book, I wish you luck in your endeavors, and lots of caffeine at exam time.
Rt. Hon. Sir John Key
Introduction
When I was 15 I bumped into my school valedictorian on a train.
It was a chance meeting, but I took the opportunity to say hello, given the guy was my academic role model and being valedictorian—or as we called it dux—at King's was on my list of high school ambitions.