Education Needs to be a Human Right

I took a class called MDG's and you. I learned about the 8 MDG's and the 17 SDGs which the UN wants to fix in the next thousand years. My favorite part of this class was the field experience that took us to the Chicago council on global affairs. We got to eat salmon and other good foods and the speech was very interesting they talked about women's rights and they had women in from Africa, South America, and the U.S. In this class we also learned about countries and where they were in the world. I also learned where all the countries in the middle east were.

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“A child miseducated is a child lost” said John F. Kennedy, and he's right. 757 million adults are less educated than you and that's just in Africa (Africa Library Project-Africa Facts). How can we let people suffer from things as simple as having speaking, reading, and writing skills? The reason I think that all children need to complete school is because under education is the main reason of poverty. People without an education will only grow up and not be able to do anything. If you aren't able to speak properly and be able to write simple things then how are you going to get a job and make a living? We need to make sure that all children complete school.

Places like Africa will never get out of poverty if the people there are not educated. It is a massive cycle and when the children are not educated then what happens when they grow up? They do the same thing their parents did which was nothing. There's a chart called Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs that is a chart that shows and categorizes the needs of humans. Education falls under the safety category of Maslow's hierarchy because if a person cannot get a job then they can't afford a home, and they are exposed to the elements and to other people who are stealing. More than 1 in 3 adults in Africa cannot read and 48 million youths (ages 15-24) are illiterate in Africa. That's 20 times more people than who live in Chicago (Africa Library Project-Africa Facts).

Imagine if every year, this earth had millions of more people who can contribute the society and come up with ideas. A higher percentage of young adults (31%) without a high school diploma live in poverty compared to the 24% of people who did finish high school. If these kids were to even finish high school, then we would have a smaller number of people in poverty.

Getting everyone an education should be easy. I say this because Americans could literally stop buying soda for a year, and we would have enough to educate everyone. Every year Americans spend an average of 65 billion dollars (Africa Library Project-Africa Facts). We are just very greedy people.

Basic education needs to be a right because it will propel the world further. How many Einsteins do you think are just waiting to be uncovered? Educating everyone will mostly demolish poverty.


Work Cited

“Africa Library Project-Africa Facts”. The African library Project N.p.,n.d.web.02 oct.2016.

“Facts about children education and poverty in America.” Dosomething.org.N.p.,n.p.web.02.oct.2016.