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3. According to the author, why doesn’t education provide a way out of poverty for children?

Reminisce when you were a child between the ages of about six to eighteen years old. For a vast majority of us, we would think about memories from elementary, middle, and high school. Now ponder how your life would change if you never went to school? Seems like an unimaginable task for many of us. Many people just assume that every child has the opportunity to be educated. The heartbreaking fact is that there are still people in the world today who don’t have access to education. In “The Future Progress of the Human Mind,” Condorcet discusses and emphasizes the importance for equal access to education. Education is crucial and no matter who you are or where you come from, everyone should be entitled to an education.

The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, illuminates the essential rights that all children have. According to the Convention, each child has the privilege of education, it is the state 's obligation to guarantee that essential education is free and necessary, to allow distinctive types of secondary training, including general and professional training and to make them open to each child and to make advanced education accessible (United Nations, 1990). But as indicated by UNICEF, an expected 93 million kids on the planet don 't get the chance to go to school, the majority whom are girls. A large part of these children are poor and their families can 't stand to send them to school. They should work to help their families survive. Others, for the most part, young girls don 't go to school since they need to help at home. However, without an education, children and families are forced to lead an existence in poverty (UNICEF, 2015).

He raised in a upper income family that was able to afford for him to go to a accredited prestigious boy’s academy. Being from a higher income family it was expected he would do something productive in his life and career. He was expected to pass his classes and go to college and then from there he pursue a career and thrive in his adulthood. Also as an adolescent in his late teens he was also expected to emerge from his childish behavior such as and adapt the role as a man. He even admitted in chapter two that he even acts childish, “Boy!" I said. I also say "Boy!" quite a lot. Partly because I have a lousy vocabulary and partly because I act quite young for my age sometimes. I was sixteen then, and I'm seventeen now, and sometimes I act like I'm about thirteen. It's really ironical, because I'm six foot two and a half and I have gray hair”. Also society expected him to act as man should act such as taking control of his future and take action to get where he need to go in

Additionally, the story Harrison Bergeron has an example of one person making a difference. In the story there is a Ballet being broadcasted, but then Harrison a person in the run interrupts it and shows to the whole audience that you can be better

There is no denying that money plays a significant role when it comes to education. Without funding, schools are unable to provide the best education in order to help students succeed. In his book, Creating Room to Read, John Wood details his experience creating libraries for children living in poverty-stricken areas all over the world. Wood’s goal is for children everywhere to be literate and to have access to texts in their native language (Wood 11). Throughout his retelling of his experiences, Wood links much of the struggles of those living in poverty to education. For the millions of people living in poverty, education is compromised, therefore people’s futures are compromised. Educational and financial success depend upon the quality of education one receives.

Maternal mortality, prostitution, and economic empowerment become global struggles due to lack of education and financial ability of both the country itself and individuals living in these countries. Families are following a pattern by neglecting to dedicate time, attention, and money to their children’s education. These people are living in the moment and do not

In “Investing in Education”, Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn illustrate how having the power of education can help overcome poverty, inequality and economic development. It’s begins with the story of a young girl the met when they were newly married, Dai Manju, in China. The family lived in a one room wooden shack, with no running water or electricity, plus they share the space with a large pig. Dai Manju is an excellent student, but she was forced to drop out of sixth grade, because her parents didn’t see any reason for girls to get an education if they going to spend their time “hoeing fields and darning socks” (Kristof and WuDunn, 167). However, Dai Manju life changed drastically when Kristof wrote an article for the New York Times about her story.

How to Change the World Growing up, we have all probably heard the chilché motivational speech that everyone can achieve their dreams and make a monumental difference in the world, no matter how insignificant we may think we are in the grand scheme of things. The documentary How to Change the World, directed by Jerry Rothwell, attests to the legitimacy of this statement that we may not have believed as children. By using imagery and audio to establish pathos, the stories of real life people to establish ethos, and steps that are actually proven to work to establish logos, Rothwell tries to convince the viewers that no matter how small you start out, if you have something you believe in and are willing to work for then you can change the world.

Countless children in need everywhere around the World do not get a quality education where they can learn and develop who they are going to be when they get older. Education is a crucial right, which gives permission to each person to acquire instructions and blossom socially in the society. The right to a proper education is critical for the economic, social, and cultural advancement of all societies. Education requires that its citizens promote an assortment of knowledge. Education is also known to consist of a form of learning that is unavoidable for the development of one’s personality and the type of character they are, as well as substantial and creative capabilities. Education is an individual right which is an obligation to be accessible to everyone in the society, without any discrimination. All children must be able to get an education, and be accountable for the same opportunities to build a future for themselves. Educational information must be equally administered, so that children from disadvantaged

As such, the exigency of equal opportunities in destitute countries is then proffered by Lessing within the exordium through the tricolon, “There is no atlas or globe in the school, no textbooks, no exercise books”, as the succinct description of the educational environment within Zimbabwe, provocatively elucidates the clear inadequacy of education within developing nations, compared to developed nations. In light of this, this comparison between developed and penurious nations, is elicited through the constant contrasting between the developed and destitute throughout the speech, notable through the juxtaposition of the “school in North London” with the “School in the blowing dust of north-west Zimbabwe”, wherein the poignant illustration of the different pedagogical environments and literature within disparate culture emphasises the need for educational equality. In light of this, the speech then pivots, using persuasive rhetoric having already attained audience engagement, as Lessing explores the power

Education comes with social benefits as well which can improve the situation of the poor, such as lower fertility and improved health care of children ("Poverty and Education"). "Poor people are often unable to obtain access to an adequate education, and without an adequate education people are often constrained to a life of poverty." - Servaas Van Der Berg. The absolutely poor in developing countries have low education levels. Some may not even have access to primary education or may not have completed their primary education, not realizing that it is important to reduce poverty. Education is often poorly measured, and the impacts do not always show up as statistically significant in cross- country growth regressions (Levine & Renelt, 1992). Africa’s education crisis makes media headlines and analysis by the Brookings Center for Universal Education (CUE) explains why this needs to change. Progress towards universal primary education has come to a halt and learning levels of children who are in school are poor as well. Using a Learning Barometer, CUE estimates that 61 million African children will reach adolescence lacking even the most basic literacy and numeracy skills, this will deprive a whole generation of opportunities to develop and escape poverty ("Poverty, Education, & Opportunity").

“Every child has the right to education”; I am sure that at some point or the other, we have all heard some variation of this very powerful statement. However, is every child given the right to education? We do not have to look far to notice the gaps in education availability between the developed and developing countries. I will be comparing and contrasting the educational system in Britain to that of a third world country, The Gambia. I will explore the history of Western education in The Gambia, and how this has played into Gambian perceptions of Western education. Because this class is interdisciplinary, I will attempt to make my paper well rounded by explaining my points from various perspectives including a historical, anthropological and gender perspective. After giving general differences and similarities, I will then concentrate specifically on the relationship between gender and education in both regions and how accessibility to education may differ on the basis of gender.

As you have already learned, the effects of poverty on children are extremely striking. No child deserves to live in a harmful environment as such, with no proper food, water, or medical treatment. These living conditions are alarming and even further disable a child from living a normal life. These children don’t have as many of the same opportunities as children living in middle to high class income, or perhaps even us, regular college students striving for a bright future. In fact,  there are 121 million children out of education, according to Global Issues. Childhood poverty needs to be alleviated as soon as possible because children who live in poverty during their early years may experience negative future achievements.

As a result of poverty and marginalization, more than 72 million children around the world remain unschooled. Sub-Saharan Africa is the most affected area with over 32 million children of primary school age remaining uneducated. Central and Eastern Asia, as well as the Pacific, are also severely affected by this problem with more than 27 million uneducated children. In addition, these regions must also resolve continuing problems of educational poverty (a child in education for less than 4 years) and extreme educational poverty (a child in education for less than 2 years) (Omwami & Keller, 2010).