Blog 10: Education Could Lift Millions Out of Poverty Globally

Summary

This article begins with having the reader imagine what it would be like to live in place where education wasn’t a top priority like many countries around the world. 57 million children currently aren’t receiving any formal type of education and those who are in school are receiving a low quality of education. Increasing access to education will make a positive difference in other challenges that the world is faced with such as poverty and malnutrition, overpopulation, and maternal and infant mortality. Education is an investment in the economy and in a positive future. In order to accomplish this progress governments need to start investing more time and money. A solution has been presented called the Education For All Act that will ensure our foreign education money will have the most impact by investing it in the Global Partnership for Education, which as already shown to help put millions of children into school.

Analysis

The world is starting to understand that the best way to accomplish the goal of worldwide education is to work together to help boost each other up.  It has been proven that when people are able to receive a high quality formal education social problems around the world lessen. It has the ability to lift a community out of poverty and improve the overall levels of health and safety. The article states that education is not only an investment in making our world a better place but also on the economic face. It leads to economic growth where it pays back $10-$15 dollars for each $1 dollar spent. It is clear that all of the reasons to help improve education are there it is just the matter of making it accessible. I think the Education For All Act is a really good start. It has already shown success in getting 22 million children back into school; 10 million of those children are girls. This is incredible progress for education because in developing countries those children who do receive any education at all tend to be males. If government’s continue to put emphasis on the right aspects of education such as fixing inequalities and making a formal education more accessible, then the world will begin to see the benefits and the education global crisis will no longer be a crisis.

This article can be found at:

http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/opinion/columnists/iowa-view/2014/04/14/iowa-view-education-lift-millions-poverty-globally/7688491/