Jon Meade Huntsman, Jr an
American politician, businessman said: “Economic prosperity and quality
education for our children are inexorably linked”. That’s typically true. Every
economy no matter how small needs educated people, not only just educated
people but also quality education.
That’s why the highly ranked
universities in the world are found in developed countries. In reality quality
education is every child’s right. But most of the developing countries
education is not given priority. Children in third world countries are cramped
in one class, with no desks, nor stationery. Even the educators are not treated
the right way. Teachers, especially the early childhood teachers are the
pacesetters of the quality education.
But the question is, where did
we go wrong? One is greediness. Most of our leaders are too greedy to realise
that they need to make quality education a priority. Most of the public schools
or government owned schools perform poorly. This is because of the condition of
the schools, they are not well kept. The teachers are not paid in time, and the
salaries are too low. That’s why most of the resort to finding other ways of
getting money, thus they don’t give their students their best.
Instead of the leaders waiting
till the election time and use education as one of the selling points in their
campaigns, why don’t they be the first in making sure we have quality
education? The international world is willing to help, that’s why one of the
Sustainable Development Goals is Quality education. But are using these
provisions? A challenge to us.