Poor education for poor people

“Poor education and opportunities for poor people are the main cause of social inequality”

The progress of a country it’s determined not only for the economic issues; people improvement it’s also important to establish it, and education it’s the fundamental base for human development of any country. Therefore, education it’s a really important fact on the progress of a country; a society without achievements and educative advances doesn’t have possibilities to keep high human development levels. That’s the reality right now in Colombia, where poor education and opportunities for under privileged people are the main cause of social inequality, and that’s one of the causes why this rich country remains in the rank of the third world ones.

According to human rights, basic education is supposed to be free and obligatory for every single woman, man, teenager or kid, as well as all kind of secondary and superior education, but the 67^th article of Colombian constitution says that education it’s a human right and a social service, SERVICE?, that’s the problem of all this mess, service means that we have to pay, so what?, what’s more important, human rights or government and private profit?. Nowadays circumstances show us that the avarice of wealthy people has stolen the rights of the unfortunate ones; maybe it’s not avarice, maybe it’s as Diego Cordoba says that ignorance drag you down to slavery, but education raise you up to freedom, so the system prefers to keep controlling slaves than people who really thinks and can represent a danger for them. But what government it’s not considering it’s that as biggest it’s the inequality, as far we are from first world countries because the lack of knowledge reduces the opportunities due to the ignorance, and leave them the only chance to work in bad paid employments, informal sub employment, delinquency or beggarliness, making the rich ones, richer and the poor ones, poorer.

“The wonder of learning something is that anybody can take it away” B.B King

Resources

ü  General Assembly of the United Nations. UDHR: Universal Declaration of Human Rights. 1948. Articles 25, 26.

ü  Political Constitution of Colombia. 1991. Articles 64, 67.