CyberDodo and the Right to Education (2-38)

Education – a passport to a better life 2/2

Justice

School attendance also provides some guarantee against juvenile delinquancy. On the contrary, a child receiving no education is at great risk of social marginalisation. Not forced to work and engage intellectually, he or she may very well find himself on the streets taking on their various tricks and traps. Statistics leave no doubt about it. Denied the critical references offered by schooling and lacking due socialisation, an uneducated child stands a much higher risk of engagement with drugs, risky behaviour and even prison.

Culture

Access to culture is one of the most important aspects of education. Stimulation of a child's natural curiosity, development of his/her natural born talents, his/her artistic skills, his/her means of creative expression these are all basic aspects included in the « Right to Education ».

To discover the diversity of humanity its multiple facets and cultural differences which so enrich our shared patrimony ! What an extraordinary experience for a child to realise that, despite being unable to communicate with another child who speaks a different language, he or she shares with all children the universal language of Art !

Child soldiers

As related to the report on child soldiers (Cartoon, report, quiz and game), it is important to mention that children who are deprived of the Right to Education are at a higher risk of being forcefully recruited as combattants.

We must never forget that school offers children a significant protection against enrollment in the armed forces.

Society

Human society as a whole is concerned to ensure the access of all children to education why ? Because it is a determinant factor as regards peace and progress - notably through acquiring knowledge of Human Rights - not only at the national level, but above all, at the international level.

That is why rich countries must help poorer countries to guarantee the Right of Education to all children, as to facilitate the full development of each child.

An educated child is a future adult more at harmony with himself and with others ; disposing of much more knowledge and information, he will be essentially freer and will be able to exercise a greater influence over his own life all the while, he or she will be able to make a positive contribution to his community.

Isn't the favourite slogan of CyberDodo the Defender of Life :

« Because freedom comes from knowledge ! »

In conclusion, is it enough to go to school ?

It is a basic precondition but not enough !

Each school has a specific mission and must have the appropriate means to realise it beginning with free instruction that is accessible to all, and obligatory. Obligatory means that all children must go to school, and not just boys, which is still the case in many countries

To see the cartoon on the Right to Education, click here

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