What students want — and what world leaders can and must do better!
Mark this day with a white stone — Július 12, 2013. The venue: Az Egyesült Nemzetek. The Event: Malala Yousafzai, the fearless education rights campaigner from Pakistan shot by extremists on her way to school, takes center stage to celebrate her birthday and together with her fellow student campaigners, leads us in a global discussion of the world’s major education issues. The birthday wish: That all diplomats in the audience use this celebration for renewal of their commitment and match their rhetoric for education reform with real actions in each of their own countries. All countries can and must do more to help the world’s children achieve a relevant, quality 21st century education. Let me share some of my reflections from listening to voices around the world on the diverse and contrasting education issues nations face today.
Education is the greatest armament in the battle on poverty, betegség, brutality and prejudice. Providing education for children in the emerging markets is both vital and relatively cheap. Így, starting today, what more can we do to get 31 million girls and 26 million boys into school and achieve the Millenium Development Goal to boost access to education worldwide?
Extremists tremble at the prospect of children with knowledge. The empowerment of students today is the single most potent solution to tomorrow’s peace. What more can Nigerian leaders do to end the torchings and brutal murders of exemplary school children by Boko Haram (name translates as “western education is sinful”), which has been blamed for killing more than 1600 victims since 2010?
Ha India beiratkozott 1 százalékkal több lány a középiskolában, a GDP emelkedne $5.5 billió. Girls with eight years of education are four times less likely to be married as children. A gyermek született, hogy a művelt anya 50 percent more likely to survive past the age of five. A lány egy évvel az oktatás lehet keresni 20 százalékkal több, mint egy felnőtt, és az iskolázatlan anyák több mint kétszer nagyobb valószínűséggel járatják gyermekeiket iskolába. We understand how and why educating girls works thanks to the voices of nine remarkable girls from Peru, Haiti, Egyiptom, Sierra Leone, Afganisztán, Etiópia, India, Nepal and Cambodia in Richard Robbins’ powerful film, Lány Rising. What more can their countries do to support them?
Chilean students cry out that free public education is a universal human right and is the most effective way to address the severe social inequalities in a country where the rich go to the best universities and the poor go to third class universities. What more can Chile’s leadership do to support an education system with deep divides along class lines (az egyik a világon a legalacsonyabb szintű állami felsőoktatás finanszírozása, néhány, a leghosszabb fok, no comprehensive system of student grants or subsidized loans)?
Egyrészt, society says I must get an education. On the other, society isn’t going to pay for it if I cannot. Shouldn’t going to University depend on ability versus ability to pay? Around the world, students have joined forces in the face of surging costs in higher education and the lack of accessibility. They also seek the answer to this question, “Will the enormous investment in time and money I am being asked to make in my education pay off?” Az Egyesült Államokban, the student loan debt is more than $1 billió (60 percent of students must borrow to help cover costs according to the Chronicle of Higher Education), making it the highest form of personal debt in this country. In Great Britain, the National Campaign Against Fees and Cuts protests government’s plans for a market-driven higher education system, rising tuition fees and a growing number of students being priced out of obtaining a degree. Az elmúlt évben, we have seen similar protests from dedicated student organizations in Quebec, Új-Zéland, Guatemala, Spain and Italy, to mention but a few. What more can the governments of these countries do to find solutions to student needs?
To the education leaders in the United Nations audience for Malala and her fellow students, I say: You need a game changer that will address the variety of big picture issues that today’s students face. You need to be more innovative in terms of finding solutions to what is becoming the world’s biggest problem. Around the world today, students are wide awake. They are many and they are united by one struggle — they want education to be accessible, affordable and relevant to their lives. They will continue to mobilize and you can be sure that on this issue, they are not going to back down.
A globális keresési Oktatási, velem és világszerte elismert szellemi vezetők többek között Sir Michael Barber (UK), DR. Michael blokk (Az US), DR. Leon Botstein (Az US), Professzor Clay Christensen (Az US), DR. Linda Darling-Hammond (Az US), DR. Madhav Chavan (India), Professzor Michael Fullan (Kanada), Professzor Howard Gardner (Az US), Professzor Andy Hargreaves (Az US), Professzor Yvonne Hellman (Hollandiában), Professzor Kristin Helstad (Norvégia), Jean Hendrickson (Az US), Professzor Rose Hipkins (Új-Zéland), Professzor Cornelia Hoogland (Kanada), Tisztelt Jeff Johnson (Kanada), Mrs. Chantal Kaufmann (Belgium), DR. Eija Kauppinen (Finnország), Államtitkár Tapio Kosunen (Finnország), Professzor Dominique Lafontaine (Belgium), Professor Hugh Lauder (UK), Professor Ben Levin (Kanada), Lord Ken Macdonald (UK), Professzor Barry McGaw (Ausztrália), Shiv Nadar (India), Professzor R. Natarajan (India), DR. PAK NG (Szingapúr), DR. Denise Pope (US), Sridhar Rajagopalan (India), DR. Diane Ravitch (Az US), Richard Wilson Riley (Az US), Sir Ken Robinson (UK), Professzor Pasi Sahlberg (Finnország), Andreas Schleicher (PISA, OECD), DR. Anthony Seldon (UK), DR. David Shaffer (Az US), DR. Kirsten Magával ragadó Are (Norvégia), Chancellor Stephen Spahn (Az US), Yves Theze (Lycee Francais-beli), Professor Charles Ungerleider (Kanada), Professzor Tony Wagner (Az US), Sir David Watson (UK), Professzor Dylan Wiliam (UK), DR. Mark Wormald (UK), Professzor Theo Wubbels (Hollandiában), Professzor Michael Young (UK), és professzor Minxuan Zhang (Kína) mivel azok feltárása a nagy kép oktatási kérdés, hogy minden nemzet ma szembesül. A Global Search Oktatási közösségi oldal
C. M. Rubin a szerző két legolvasottabb internetes sorozat, amely megkapta a 2011 Upton Sinclair díjat, “A Global Search for Education” és “Hogyan fogjuk olvasása?” Ő a szerzője a három bestseller könyv, Beleértve The Real Alice Csodaországban.
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