Education Is A Fundamental Human Right And Essential For...

Thomas Hanner Ms. Jones English 12 04 April 2017 Right to Education In today s world we may not think about social justice issues as much as we should, considering they are more prominent today than ever. The most frightening and damaging issue of all, is restriction of education. People in school typically don’t recognize that â€Å"Education is a fundamental human right and essential for the exercise of all other human rights†(Gil). Without proper education the civil rights movement would never have made headway, and Martin Luther King would just be another violent uneducated man of the time only reinforcing the stereotypes he fought so diligently to disprove. Education is the most valuable human resource we can attain, because it gives us†¦show more content†¦A rational thinker with a proper education would almost never follow such a blind and trivial path as a terrorist against education. If â€Å"education is the most powerful weapon which you may use to change the world†(Mandela) people should spread information, n ot fear to change the world. Terrorists may be the largest inhibitors of education in third world countries, but that is not to say that they are the only ones. Back in 2013 a rich family in India voiced their opinion of the Indian education system, saying that it was disadvantaged and that there should be better schools for the higher class of people instead of a single school for all children. They made the claim that going to school with a lower economic class of people would contaminate the rich and educated and hold them back with their lower intellectual capacity. Accordingly the existing school system is not ideal considering â€Å"nationally 29 percent of children drop out before completing five years of primary school†(Sahni). 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