This mission -- advancing human potential and promoting equality -- will require a new approach for all working towards these goals.

　　促进人类的发展潜力和促进平的这项任务，需要新视角得以实现此类目标。

　　We must make long term investments over 25, 50 or even 100 years. The greatest challenges require very long time horizons and cannot be solved by short term thinking.

　　We must engage directly with the people we serve. We can't empower people if we don't understand the needs and desires of their communities.

　　We must build technology to make change. Many institutions invest money in these challenges, but most progress comes from productivity gains through innovation.

　　We must participate in policy and advocacy to shape debates. Many institutions are unwilling to do this, but progress must be supported by movements to be sustainable.

　　We must back the strongest and most independent leaders in each field. Partnering with experts is more effective for the mission than trying to lead efforts ourselves.

　　We must take risks today to learn lessons for tomorrow. We're early in our learning and many things we try won't work, but we'll listen and learn and keep improving.

　　Our experience with personalized learning, internet access, and community education and health has shaped our philosophy.

　　我们在个性化学习、互联网接入、社区教育与健康的体验中形成了我们的理念。

　　Our generation grew up in classrooms where we all learned the same things at the same pace regardless of our interests or needs.

　　Your generation will set goals for what you want to become -- like an engineer, health worker, writer or community leader. You'll have technology that understands how you learn best and where you need to focus. You'll advance quickly in subjects that interest you most, and get as much help as you need in your most challenging areas. You'll explore topics that aren't even offered in schools today. Your teachers will also have better tools and data to help you achieve your goals.

　　Even better, students around the world will be able to use personalized learning tools over the internet, even if they don't live near good schools. Of course it will take more than technology to give everyone a fair start in life, but personalized learning can be one scalable way to give all children a better education and more equal opportunity.

　　We're starting to build this technology now, and the results are already promising. Not only do students perform better on tests, but they gain the skills and confidence to learn anything they want. And this journey is just beginning. The technology and teaching will rapidly improve every year you're in school.

　　Your mother and I have both taught students and we've seen what it takes to make this work. It will take working with the strongest leaders in education to help schools around the world adopt personalized learning. It will take engaging with communities, which is why we're starting in our San Francisco Bay Area community. It will take building new technology and trying new ideas. And it will take making mistakes and learning many lessons before achieving these goals.

　　But once we understand the world we can create for your generation, we have a responsibility as a society to focus our investments on the future to make this reality.

　　Together, we can do this. And when we do, personalized learning will not only help students in good schools, it will help provide more equal opportunity to anyone with an internet connection.

　　• • •

　　Many of the greatest opportunities for your generation will come from giving everyone access to the internet.

　　你们这代人的很多绝佳机会都来自于每个人都能上网。

　　People often think of the internet as just for entertainment or communication. But for the majority of people in the world, the internet can be a lifeline.

　　It provides education if you don't live near a good school. It provides health information on how to avoid diseases or raise healthy children if you don't live near a doctor. It provides financial services if you don't live near a bank. It provides access to jobs and opportunities if you don't live in a good economy.

　　The internet is so important that for every 10 people who gain internet access, about one person is lifted out of poverty and about one new job is created.Yet still more than half of the world's population -- more than 4 billion people -- don't have access to the internet.

　　If our generation connects them, we can lift hundreds of millions of people out of poverty. We can also help hundreds of millions of children get an education and save millions of lives by helping people avoid disease.

　　This is another long term effort that can be advanced by technology and partnership. It will take inventing new technology to make the internet more affordable and bring access to unconnected areas. It will take partnering with governments, non-profits and companies. It will take engaging with communities to understand what they need. Good people will have different views on the best path forward, and we will try many efforts before we succeed.

　　But together we can succeed and create a more equal world.

　　• • •

　　Technology can't solve problems by itself. Building a better world starts with building strong and healthy communities.

　　技术是人来解决的，所以建设强大而健康的区群是建设更美好的世界的重要保证。

　　Children have the best opportunities when they can learn. And they learn best when they're healthy.

　　Health starts early -- with loving family, good nutrition and a safe, stable environment.

　　Children who face traumatic experiences early in life often develop less healthy minds and bodies. Studies show physical changes in brain development leading to lower cognitive ability.

　　Your mother is a doctor and educator, and she has seen this firsthand.

　　If you have an unhealthy childhood, it's difficult to reach your full potential.

　　If you have to wonder whether you'll have food or rent, or worry about abuse or crime, then it's difficult to reach your full potential.

　　If you fear you'll go to prison rather than college because of the color of your skin, or that your family will be deported because of your legal status, or that you may be a victim of violence because of your religion, sexual orientation or gender identity, then it's difficult to reach your full potential.

　　We need institutions that understand these issues are all connected. That's the philosophy of the new type of school your mother is building.

　　By partnering with schools, health centers, parent groups and local governments, and by ensuring all children are well fed and cared for starting young, we can start to treat these inequities as connected. Only then can we collectively start to give everyone an equal opportunity.

　　It will take many years to fully develop this model. But it's another example of how advancing human potential and promoting equality are tightly linked. If we want either, we must first build inclusive and healthy communities.

　　• • •

　　For your generation to live in a better world, there is so much more our generation can do.

　　Today your mother and I are committing to spend our lives doing our small part to help solve these challenges. I will continue to serve as Facebook's CEO for many, many years to come, but these issues are too important to wait until you or we are older to begin this work. By starting at a young age, we hope to see compounding benefits throughout our lives.

　　As you begin the next generation of the Chan Zuckerberg family, we also begin the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to join people across the world to advance human potential and promote equality for all children in the next generation. Our initial areas of focus will be personalized learning, curing disease, connecting people and building strong communities.

　　We will give 99% of our Facebook shares -- currently about $45 billion -- during our lives to advance this mission. We know this is a small contribution compared to all the resources and talents of those already working on these issues. But we want to do what we can, working alongside many others.

　　我和普莉希拉·陈将捐出所持有的99% Facebook股票，当前的价值约为450亿美元用以加速此项计划的进展。虽然我们深知与现存的众多资源和技术来说，也无异于沧海一粟，但我们想做些力所能及的事，与众人一同努力。

　　We'll share more details in the coming months once we settle into our new family rhythm and return from our maternity and paternity leaves. We understand you'll have many questions about why and how we're doing this.

　　As we become parents and enter this next chapter of our lives, we want to share our deep appreciation for everyone who makes this possible.

　　We can do this work only because we have a strong global community behind us. Building Facebook has created resources to improve the world for the next generation. Every member of the Facebook community is playing a part in this work.

　　We can make progress towards these opportunities only by standing on the shoulders of experts -- our mentors, partners and many incredible people whose contributions built these fields.

　　And we can only focus on serving this community and this mission because we are surrounded by loving family, supportive friends and amazing colleagues. We hope you will have such deep and inspiring relationships in your life too.

　　Max, we love you and feel a great responsibility to leave the world a better place for you and all children. We wish you a life filled with the same love, hope and joy you give us. We can't wait to see what you bring to this world.

　　Max，爸爸妈妈非常爱妳。我们有责任让你们这一代生活在更好的世界上。爸爸妈妈祝愿你生活在我们同等的爱、希望与快乐之中。我们热切期待见到你将能为世界所带来的一切。

　　Love,

　　Mom and Dad

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