Krystal Benson
September 7th 2011
Blog Post #2
In the world today, although education isn’t at its best at the moment, there are still some attempts of improvement. In Rwanda they have been doing exactly that, striving to make a change for the better within education. After a program started last year to help increase adult literacy, the Minister of Education announced that 34,829 people recently graduated from adult classes. These programs were implemented to train as many people as possible within a short period of time. They are taught different skills in reading, writing and arithmetic as well as the importance of health, agriculture, family planning and upholding peace within the community. Like any country, not just the U.S, people still don’t take advantage of getting an education. Therefore, although they have high numbers in graduates they still have an even higher number in people with lack of interest. According to the Director-General of UNESCO, Irina Bokova, the fact that they have inexperienced tutors, a low reading culture, and insufficient materials, it is reducing their hopes of lowering poverty and human development. While they are having some setbacks, they are still striving to make education better. Through the use of an inclusive education, where everyone can feel comfortable in learning no matter their ethnicity, sex, or beliefs, their education system will get better.
I felt that this was an interesting article. To see how different parts of the world are trying to strive to make education better for their community is amazing. Not only are they striving to make it better for the children of the future, but they are also working with the adults to help give them the education that they were lacking as adolescents. I felt as if this was a global issue because of course, education is something that effects everyone. But the fact that the people in Rwanda are become well versed in the basic literacy skills and arithmetic as well as agriculture, health and building peace in their community, they will now be able to contribute even more. From this we can have more doctors, mathematicians, teachers and even businessmen just because they are taken the time to educate them. Who knows, they could even help with the economy crisis and have some new ideas to offer. This article showed me that maybe the U.S isn't the best in doing everything and maybe we should take a step back and follow what others countries are starting to implement to see if they can work for us.
http://allafrica.com/stories/201109070290.html
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