A ‘Quality Education’ is
the fourth goal of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals of the Agenda
2030. In order to respect the UN’s SDG,
every Member is committed in developing and implementing development policies
suited to achieving the established targets.One of this is “ by 2030, ensure
that all girls and boys complete free, equitable
and quality primary and secondary education leading to relevant and Goal-4
effective learning outcomes.”
Education: the basis of
society.
Education is what constitutes and gives form to the culture
of society. Education is the development of all of human personality aspects,
affective and behavioral, including natural attitudes. The knowledge about the
surrounding world depends on the relation between the environmental stimuli and
education. By improving education -aiming to have an equitable and quality education-
the population can acquirethe ability to develop consciousness when it is stimulated
by the surrounding world. Through the education, a conscious society can
understand the way to behave, and obtain benefits from their experiences.Consequently
to the comprehension of the good way of managing the external information,
occurs the realization of the basic civil rights which lead to a better
standard of life. In short, the society’s development is a result of an
improvement of the society knowledge, that allows to better managing available resources.
Therefore, education plays an important role for the society orientation. If it
was accessible and equal to everyone without gender, race, religious or any
economic status distinctions, it would generate a civilized society, able to
live healthy and in peace, encouraging integration.Integration means “without any type of discrimination” and the
education has to support the idea of equality with equal rights to maintain an
integrated society. Consequently, an equal education is able to eliminate the
barriers that separate categories: when people cross the door of the classroom,
they leave behind not only the backpack, but alsoeverything that makes
differences between classmates. In that moment, people are equal and sit near
other classmates with the same purpose to learn.
A Quality Education.
Education from young age is very important, because children
learn to develop and use their mental, moral and physical powers, which they
acquire through various types of education. However, education requires
perseverance not only in school environment, but also at home where a child
receive knowledge from parents, family members and even also from
acquaintances. For many families, receiving a good and quality education is the
key of success, so it is very important reach a great level of knowledge that
means to literally invest on prestigious schools career. However, unfortunately,
there are places in the world where people can’t afford it, and the opportunity
to increase their standard of living is very low. In India, even if significant
progress has been made in education sector, there are still a lot of children
who don’t have access to higher education.According to UN data the net
enrolment ratio in primary education was at 100%, however, there are many
children who cannotpursue their studies due to the necessity to work or to marriage.
Since the 21,2% of the population living on less than $1,90, they cannot afford
to send their children to good schools.A quality education lead to be
surrounded by a lot of opportunities in a prosperity conditions, making it
possible for each of us to contribute to a progressive, healthy society .
If a country doesn’t have participating, educated and
informed citizens, it doesn’t grow. A quality education has an important role
for the country’s development.
Equitable education.
Equitable means that everybody has
the right to education without differences of economic status, gender, religion
and race. In India, the society subdivision in caste is well known. Thus the
Kshatriyas learnt the art of warfare, the Brahmins learnt the art and are
responsible for teaching and maintaining sacred knowledge, the Vaishya caste
learned commerce and other specific vocational courses. However, the Shudras, considered
the lowest caste in the society, were deprived of education. Despite the still
current subdivision in caste, in recent years, the country is committed to make
universal at least primary education respecting the 2000, UN Millennium
Declaration focusing on the country’s and international development.
It is said,“Educate a man, you educate one person, educate a
woman you educate a complete family”. Traditionally, in many societies is the
father who supports the family, but this kind of support is strictly economic,
while the real milestone in a family is the mother figure. Usually, she has to
care about the family and the children growth, handing down the family knowledge
and education. For this reason, the girls education has to be an inalienable
right. Unfortunately, the responsibility to take care of the family and the
house lead girls to dropout, so their right to education is denied. However, it
is know that gender equality in education sector is strictly correlated to the
economic growth. If all women and girls, in India, were able to complete the
cycle of primary education the maternal death rate would be drastically
reduced. Every extra year of education, women’s earning increases and the number
of child marriage would reduce, as well as the risk of contracting diseases.
Not only the girls education is important for carrying on an healthy life with
more opportunities, but also for the whole population’s well-being and
country’s economic growth.
As an Ngo HEEALS, firmly believe in education as a resource
for the development of the country. Its projects are orientated into the
education sector with the purpose to show children that there are a lot of good
opportunities, as they can cross their constraints of society and have a better
standard of living. As an example, through the international WASH project -followed
by many NGOs- kids can prevent many water related disease only understanding some
rules to lead an healthy life.
Children are the future of the nation. We have to rise them
with good education, so that they become responsible individuals in future with
the possibility to live in a dignified and healthy way. They need to understand
what is right and what is wrong for their personal development and the
realization of their potential can be found through education. Education traces
the path to make the most of what the little we have and turn into something
better for us and for the community.Denying one access to education means to
deny the basic right to be a human being, free to make own choice. Every child,
male or female, poor or rich, black or white, Muslim or Hindu, must go to
school as everyone has equal rights to education. The growth and development of
any country depend on the quality of education its citizens receive from their
childhood. Give literacy and education to population and it obtains the
discrete power to judge and rationalize the events on natural surroundings as well
as in the social context.
Elisa Stucchi-
WASH & MH coordinator
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