Education (incomplete) Flashcards
Give examples of academic learning benefitting countries
- The development of the Four Asian Tigers (Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan, South Korea) was catalysed by high government investment in education. Singapore’s literacy rate surpassed that of the US in 1990 (89%).
- Education impeded the spread of the African AIDS epidemic, which saved numerous lives.
How does education reduce social inequality?
Education is the powerful tide that lifts all boats. United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) estimates that each year of schooling increases the earnings of men and women by 10% and 20% respectively.
How does education promote stability in society?
Education, work opportunity and crimes are all closely linked due to their attributions to one’s standard of living.
Increased college education by 5% in certain regions, like West Baltimore in the US, can attenuate homicidal rates by 20%.
How does education reduce social issues caused by overpopulation?
Highly educated women have fewer children due to knowledge of family planning. It was concluded that the number of girls’ schooling years affected a country’s fertility rate.
In the mid 1970s, 12% of girls reached the lower secondary school level, and the country’s fertility rate was 7.6 births per woman.
In the mid 2010s, 59% of girls reached the lower secondary school level, and the country’s fertility rate was 4 births per woman.
Give evidence that education lowers child and infant mortality rates.
Children of mothers without education, and children of mothers with secondary or tertiary education in the Latin American and Caribbean regions were 3.1 times and 1.6 times more likely to die respectively.
Give an example of benefits of governance in education.
It acts as a liberalizing mechanism which triggers revolt when people realise the incongruence between their aspirations and the government’s incapability to fulfil them.
The Arab Spring Uprising and Hong Kong riots were led by educated youths, who understood what exemplary governance and democracy was.
The Hong Kong riots were triggered by a bill allowing extraditions to Mainland China.
Following the riots, HK Chief Executive, Carrie Lam, withdrew the bill.
Give an example of the drawbacks caused by governance in education.
Education is sadly used to control the populace and demand obedience, and is used to indoctrinate students and children into radical beliefs.
North Korean children are raised to worship their leaders; the unquestioning acceptance of state practices is promoted.
Children are even trained to ‘honorably’ perform in winter for state leader Kim Jong Un.
How badly did the Coronavirus affect students?
90% of the student population was affected by school closures. At the peak of global lockdowns to ameliorate the spread of COVID-19, 1.6 billion children were out of school.
10% of children joined the existing 50% of children who were learning poor.
