The Resolution of
Poverty: Education
People have kept
trying hard and hard to develop their lives better. As this circumstance, their
lives have been received the reward from their efforts and they now deserve to
live with quality services such as abundant medical service and healthy environmental
condition. However, these quality lives are not for everyone, but they are only
for the wealthy people. Those who have enough money enjoy receiving quality
services, but most of people such as the poverty not only being living in the
developing countries but also being living in developed nations, especially
children who have parents who place low income jobs, are now struggling with those and spending very hard time in school,
society and elsewhere. They have just seen discrimination with emasculated. The main reason for them to be discriminated is lack of education.
People trying to help for them have overlooked the power of education and they
have merely tried to send some medicine and supplement that is not enough to
cover all problems. There is a thought that poverty is rooted from fundamental
problems such as continuous malnutrition or rotten politics and so forth.
However unlike their expectation more fundamental problem that should be solved
is uneducated rates. Discovered researches give significant proofs that the
learned poverty is very important to make end of the poverty. Even if its
solution is very long-term process, its efficiency for solving poverty is the
best.
Education
gives many advantages to many parts of lives from basis of lives to higher
consciousness for fighting with unjust. According to Hilde Johnson who is the
deputy executive director of UNICEF, “Education is the most effective, and in
fact, the only way to get rid of poverty” (Bae, 2010). She introduced the
circumstance that how education reduces and further finish the basic problem
for living humanly. She told that if women would be educated, the family that
women involve should totally change in variety parts of their lives such as
hygiene and health issues. They would also let their children be educated and
make them to fight with social injustice through teaching social
responsibilities and right (Bae, 2010). Here is the example to support her
idea. The Care organization insists that families that have educated mother
immunize far roughly 50% higher than other families that have mother who did
not go to school. It also mentions that “while HIV/AIDS spreads twice as
quickly among uneducated girls than to among girls that have even some schooling”
(Care Organization). This result comes from the women’s ability that has some
limitation to earn money. Therefore they tend to make effort in household and
childcare.
Here
is another thought that education prevent to reproduce class. This idea has
usually prevailed in developed countries since this phenomenon often appear in
diversity of classes (Arrighi
& Maume, 2007). By world being capitalized, quality of education has also been
capitalized. The rich has good education and the poor has bad quality one or
even nothing. As this circumstance, the child who has rich parents would
replace parents’ position of society. In contrast, the poor child who does not
have good quality education would take place of low position of society where
he/she’s parents would place (Arrighi & Maume, 2007). Maybe some cannot
very enjoy studying because of their situation as childcare, working for
maintaining the family and scarce money to go school (Berrick, 1995). However through learning and training, they could have the
sight that unfair social structure or laws. This gives them power to fight with
upper classes and modify inclined structure only for upper people. For example,
in Korea all parents tend to give their children opportunities to have quality
education although they are living in marginal lives. Their children finally go
into society by going to college or taking jobs. They notice something wrong in
society as college fee or lack of chance to take jobs. Tuition fee is usually
for luxurious environment of employee of university not for quality service or
education for students. Now they have fought with government for half price of
tuition fee and they almost won. How they could do it? It is because they have
sight for finding wrong things in society. Education gives low class or middle
class a voice to insist their right to upper class logically. It is only way to
prevent to reproduce class and to unfair social structure.
To
sum up, there is not debt that education is one of the best methods to solve
the poverty. What way could solve the fundamental reasons of poverty. Giving
some supplement or welfare is not enough to cover all of the poverty and it
only helps for surface of the poverty not helping it deeply. Education is not
merely working for preventing to class reproduction and basis of lives. It is
also working for many things that upper class does like that low class people
to be educated. That is why ancient heads of countries did not give any school
opportunity before the citizen to be enlightened. Therefore, through education
people learn how to maintain their lives and their right to overcome the poverty
and for better lives.
Reference
Arrighi, B., & Maume, D. (2007). Child poverty
in america today: Families children. (Vol. 1, pp. 71-87). London, England:
Praeger.
Arrighi, B., & Maume, D. (2007). Child poverty
in america today: The promise of education. (Vol. 3, pp. 48-65). Praeger.
Bae, J. (2010, May 12). Education only way to get
rid of poverty. The Korean Times. Retrieved from
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2010/05/117_65789.html
Berrick, J. (1995). Faces of poverty: Portraits of
women and children on welfare. (pp. 137-139). New York, NY: Oxford University
Press.
Care Organization. (n.d.). Ending poverty-why
empower women and girls?. Retrieved from
http://www.care.org/getinvolved/advocacy/pdfs/whyempowerwomen.pdf
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