Our education system is in shambles. Young people in Burma may not know what a democracy is, but they certainly know that they do not want what they are getting now: they want to be well educated. That is a beginning. The next step is to make them understand that if they want things to be better, they have to do something about making things better. It is difficult to make them understand that they can do something. It is not just that they have to do something; they can do something. They are capable of doing something. They must try to bring about the changes that they want, instead of leaving it to the National League for Democracy, or to me, or to other political parties. 我们的教育体系目前一片混乱。缅甸的年轻人可能不知道民主是什么，但他们一定知道目前的状态不是他们想要的──他们想要接受良好的教育。这仅是一个开始。下一步是让他们明白，如果他们想让事情有所改善，就必须采取相应的行动。我们很难让他们相信他们自己可以做到一些事。他们不光是必须做;而且也能做到。他们有这个能力。他们必须努力促成自己想要的改变，而不是把这个任务留给全国民主联盟、我本人或是其他政党。
AUNG SAN SUU KYI (b. 1945) is a Burmese opposition politician, the former General Secretary of the National League for Democracy (NLD), and the daughter of Aung San─the father of modern-day Burma. The military junta first placed her under house arrest following popular democratic protests in 1989. Subsequently, she has been detained or under house arrest on at least six separate occasions, totaling 15 years. In 1991 she received the Nobel Peace Prize honoring her as 'one of the most extraordinary examples of civil courage in Asia in recent decades.' She was released once again from house arrest in November 2010 and was elected to a seat in Parliament in spring 2012. Burma's leaders continue to ignore the fact that she and her political party, the NLD, won the majority of votes in a 1990 national election.
