Education and its Importance to a countrys' Development

Benefits of Education

• It gives people the tools and critical skills to provide for themselves and their children.
• Creates greater opportunities to encourage and cultivate sustainable and viable economic growth.

Benefits of Education (cont.)

• Helps people fight against governments that are lead by corruption.
• It encourages good governance, stability, and a transparency that is lacking due to arrogance and ignorance.
• https://youtu.be/AbdNTtEyYyY

Education is a Fundamental Right

• Education is more than reading and writing.
• Through progress over the last 15 years many children now attend school and are provided an education.
• However, millions of children are still denied their right to an education.

GIrls and Education

• women represent nearly two- thirds of the worlds illiterate
• By teaching women, we increase the country's productivity and we fuel economic growth.
• 31 million girls are still out of school around the world
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLNsxmxc5fU

Food for THought

• Just because a child is in school does not mean they are learning.
• It is up to teachers as a whole to encourage our students to overcome cultural and marginalized beliefs and to pursue an education to better themselves and to provide themselves with a better life.

Food for THought

• We live in a country that has so many opportunities to educate our youth, yet we still have a rather high non-literate rate. As a teacher and as a mentor to our future what can we do to create young men and women with strong ethics and morals and the ability to think critically and intellectually about our world and how we can improve it?

References for Media In Order of Apperance

• Education | Global Partnership for Education. (n.d.). Retrieved September 9, 2015, from http://www.globalpartnership.org/education
• Girls' Education | Global Partnership for Education. (n.d.). Retrieved September 9, 2015, from http://www.globalpartnership.org/focus-areas/girls-education