Men Do Not Live Only By Fighting Evils

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Isaiah Berlin has argued: "Men do not live only by fighting evils. They : by positive goals.His idea is worth the attention of current world iers. And one of the most important positive goals has already been notified by the United Nations: universal primary education by 2015. Thomas Sabo Charms

I am aware that when I argue that basic education for all can transform miserable world in which we live, I sound a little like a Victorian gentlewoman delivering her favorite recipe for progress. As it happens however, extensive empirical studies have demonstrated the critical role c basic education in economic and social development in Europe and North America as well as in Asia, Africa and Latin America. When Japan set out i the 19th century to catch up with the Western nations, its Fundamental Cod of Education, issued in 1872, expressed the public commitment to make sui that there must be "no community with an illiterate family, nor a family with an illiterate person. " By 1913, though still very much poorer than Britain c America, Japan was publishing more books than ...
... Britain and more than twice as many as the United States. The concentration on education w￡ responsible, to a large extent, for the nature and speed of Japan's economic and social progress.

Later on, China, South Korea and other economies in East Asia followed similar routes. Explanations of their rapid economic progress often cite the ?willingness to make good use of the global market economy; and rightly so But that process was greatly helped by the emphasis all of these countries placed on basic education. Widespread participation in a global economy would have been hard to accomplish if people could not read or write - or produce according to specifications or instructions. Thomas Sabo Bracelets
The contribution of basic education to development is not, however confined to economic progress. Education has intrinsic importance; to arability to read and write can deeply influence one's quality of life. Also, a educated population can make better use of democratic opportunities than a illiterate one. Further, an ability to read documents and legal provisions can help subjugated women and other oppressed groups make use t their rights and demand more fairness. And female literacy can enhance women's voices in family affairs and reduce gender ('|45'J) inequality in other fields, a benefit to men as well as women, since women's empowered through literacy tends to reduce child mortality and very significantly decreed fertility (4.W) rates.