Education transforming Lives Pratyush Das03:09 0 comments

Education lights every stage of the journey to a better life, especially for the poor and the most vulnerable. Education’s unique power to act as a catalyst for wider development goals can only be fully realized, however, if it is equitable. That means making special efforts to ensure that all children and young people - regardless of their family income, where they live, their gender, their ethnicity, whether they are disabled - can benefit equally from its transformative power. Education empowers girls and young women, in particular, by increasing their chances of getting jobs, staying healthy and participating fully in society - and it boosts their children’s chances of leading healthy lives. To unlock the wider benefits of education, all children need the chance to complete not only primary school but also lower secondary school. And access to schooling is not enough on its own: education needs to be of good quality so that children actually learn. Given education’s transformative power, it needs to be a central part of any post-2015 global development framework.

It is a well-known fact that a skilled person is always better off than unskilled person in all arenas of life. Educating a person does not mean to make him read or write and mug up everything he does not want to do; it means to provide all possible knowledge to a person in area of his or her interest and not according to the norms of society. This would be pretty helpful for everyone- for the nation as well as for the person. The GDP per capita of the country will increase as well as the salary of the person.

In India, people are increasingly trying to get their children educated. The results are reduced infant mortality rate, increase in the GDP as well as wholesome increment in the standard of living of the people. This can further be increased if the education is not only restricted to Maths and Science but expanded to give a person some vocational skills so that he can choose between all things that he wants to do and has an interest in.

This is evident that education is so powerful that it can transform the life of an ordinary person. For example the two brothers in a small town in U.P. used the power of education to transform the fortune of their family as well as themselves by cracking the prestigious JEE Advanced exam. It is the perfect example for all to get motivated to give their children quality education as well as for the students to receive and accept the power of education and not let it waste.

Author: Sarisht Wadhwa