In our society, Education is seen as more of a right than a privilege for most. Most of us couldn’t imagine a world where school or some sort of learning was not a part of our everyday life, (as much as we wished for it to be just that way in our younger years). Unfortunately this is not the case in many different parts of our World. In many developing countries a University level education is too expensive and complex to even think of. There are many scholars from these poorer countries in the western developed world but what about the nation they originated from? Is that just a forgotten memory? A well educated people are a people who can bring themselves out of poverty and can begin to give aid to the World in a positive aid. There are many Global issues that will take the contributions of all the different countries around the world to solve; so how can we do this if many of our countries are falling behind and literally becoming extinct in the new century? I believe that Global Education is the first of many steps to a better world. Developed countries need to band together in order to educate our fellow human beings so that they can begin the help themselves and so on. While researching this issue I ran across the International Professors Project. This is a non-profit global network of professors that have begun working on college campuses in developing countries around the world to help them flourish academically. I will follow their achievements as well as developing stories of countries around the world that are fighting to become educated.
"Two-thirds of humankind lives in developing countries, and most of the world’s worst deprivation is located there. Study of these societies is therefore of central importance to any enquiry into the human condition. Population is critical for many reasons, as in its relationships to health, migration, environment, youth, education, aging, gender, productivity, retirement income, old-age support, employment opportunity, male-female ratios, family support systems, to name a significant fraction of the intersections of population with other variables and phenomena."OECD 2005
