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Gandhi
on Education:
“The
purpose of education is to bring out the best of you”
Education
is one of the most powerful instruments for reducing poverty and inequality,
improving health and social well being, and laying the basis for sustained
economic growth. It is essential for building democratic societies and
dynamic, globally competitive economies.
Millennium
Development Goals, United Nations
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Education
is the most powerful tool against poverty. An education gives people
the power to influence their own life. Without an education poverty
is regenerated from generation to generation because poor people who
lack resources can’t send their children to school.
Unavoidably, people who grow up without an education have little hope
of building a better future for themselves or giving their own children
the opportunity to go to school.
- Education
is the basic requisite for people to get out of poverty, yet nearly
120 million school-aged children worldwide - most of them girls -
are not enrolled in school.
- Education
is positively correlated with better health, longer life expectancy,
smaller families and higher quality of life. Parents who understand
the importance of sanitation and nutrition are better able to protect
their children from preventable illness and diseases. In fact, studies
show that survival and health of children improve in direct proportion
to a mother's level of education.
- Education
gives people new skills and empowers them to take advantage of new
opportunities. For communities, education raises productivity, innovation
and output. Making education universally available will facilitate
a more equal income distribution and help reverse minority marginalization.
- Education
is an investment in human capital. Workers become more productive
with more education because they are capable of more complex tasks.
More education usually results in higher personal income and greater
gross national product. Education allows a worker to use other inputs
to the production process more efficiently. Higher levels of education
lead to technological innovation and development of new products.
- Education
is a prerequisite for political democracy. Education prepares people
to accept and manage responsibility and influence their future by
voting. Education empowers people to take more control of their lives.
It provides people with the self-confidence needed to make their opinions
heard and protect their rights.
To
promote education, the World Education Forum in Dakar in 2000 set the
objectives to provide an 'Education
for All'. The target is to ensure that by 2015 all children of primary-school
age would participate in free, good quality schooling and that girls would
have the same access to an education as boys.
There
is still much to do. There are millions of children and young adults around
the world who do not have access to appropriate education.
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HUMANITAS Switzerland 2009
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