Education in India
An article by class 8 student
Education is the solution to all your problems. If you are educated enough for a good job, then you don’t need to worry about your financial condition. But what about the uneducated or illiterate people? They neither get a job which means no source of income nor are they properly respected in the society.
Well! This was just an introduction to you about the state of education in India. The literacy rate is very low in India because of two main reasons:
Poverty
This is very easy to understand as everyone knows that if you are poor, then you can’t afford the cost of education in a good school. But if we think, then we have the solution to this problem right under our nose- The Government Schools. The private schools charge a lot of money but the government ones are for the poor kids only as their fees is really low.
But still the literacy rate is low because of the second reason.
The Mentality of the People
Some people intentionally don’t send their kids to school because they think that what will the child do by just going to school and then they ask their kids to help them in their small businesses which are their source of income. Well! This becomes child labour now.
Some parents don’t want their kids to go school as they think that it will waste their money and by working, the kids will earn money and learn to earn a living.
This thinking is totally wrong and should be changed. The children will learn to earn a better living if they will go to a school.
To conclude, I would like to quote a saying of Swami Vivekananda-
“Education is the panacea of all the problems in the world.”
This means that education is the solution to all the problems in the world and it can be used in its most efficient way to change this world.
Education should be provided to every kid in this world as it is their birth right and if someone tries to take this right away from them, then he should be punished.
– Riya Singh
(8th Grade Student)