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Is Education a Global Issue? By: Lucinda S. Martinez Education is the most neglected of global issues. The development of education plays an important role in the growth of any country. Without the spread of education new ideas cannot be discovered. The future of any country depends on how well educated its people are. In order to better people's lives they must know how to read and write. Education should be available to all people. Problems that are commonly address to education is access to or the condition of educational facilities. Knowledge is the key, knowledge provides powers. Knowledge opens doors and changes lives. Education should be equal to everyone. No matter what their ethnicity, gender, race, religion, age, people should be educated. Women and Girl's education are important. It’s not fair for only man and boys to be educated. It doesn’t make much sense, if we want smart children then the mothers should also be educated and pass on their knowledge to their children. The promotion of gender equality are vital to development of a country. Equal educational opportunities provides people with a better the chance of bettering their situation. Learning how to read and write can improve ones chances of getting work to support one's family. Primary access to public school is harder for girls than it is for boys. Usually problems such as poverty, adverse cultural practices, school quality and distance from school can affect any child's access to education. However, there are some emerging challenges that reduce girls' enrollment in primary, secondary, and tertiary schools.

Education availability has improve. Between 1999 and 2006, the world number of children not in school declined rapidly from about 100million to 75 million. The percentage that are girls constitutes about 55% of all children out of school, which was originally 59%.Worldwide, for everyone 100 boys out of school there are 122 girls, and in some area around the world that number is a lot higher. Education for everyone is important because it can provide people with information. Education can improve upon public awareness and understanding of other global issues. Education can help spread information. In third world countries access to information is slowed. Due to issues such as lack of teaching facilities, poor study infrastructures, a small number of schools, population explosion, and high cost of private schools and universities. It’s because of this that third world nations are plagued with the problem of high illiteracy level. Poverty and increasing population growth are the causes of high illiteracy. High level of illiteracy impair the development of third world countries. Education provides public awareness to other issues especially to women. By getting awareness men, women, and children are protected from being exploited. Women and girls would become less vulnerable and know about risks and learn how to prevent themselves from being used. Education allows information on problems such as reducing women’s fertility rates, protecting against HIV/AIDS infection, labor force participation rates and earnings. Being aware can benefit a country and maybe help solve these problems. Education is just as important as any other global issue. If people have access to public education more people would be informed and able to find a good job. By building bigger, better, closer education facilities more children will be able to go to school. Everyone is entitled to free education and they should have the right to exercise and pursue that right. Education is important to better the future, if we educate our children we can hope that they take that knowledge and improve the certain problems that the world faces. Everyone has the potential of being someone great and knowledge is key to opening doors to those opportunities.