The Education Page
By Katherine and Rachel
A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education he may steal the whole railroad. -Theodore Roosevelt
This page is about education of the world. As you saw on the FrontPage, this project is based on the book If The World Were A Village by David J. Smith. In this book, the world is reduced to a village of 100 people, with one person equalling about 64 million people. This is done to make numbers easier to comprehend, and make percentages easier to understand. Therefore, with so many people in the real world, compared to the Global Village, the numbers have to be rounded, to make them work in the Global Village. In this Wiki, we aim to go over and above the data in the book.
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Literate vs. Illiterate
These graphs show the literate and illiterate people of the village. Of the 71 people that can read in the village, 31 are children. There are seventeen people in the village that can’t read at all though. Seven of those are school aged children. In America, the struggle for an education is not as great as in other countries. In some countries the struggle is more for food or a good home. If they hardly have the money for the necessities then they wouldn’t even think about an education. And, more than half of the illiterate people are adults. The main reason children don’t go to school is the cost. A lot of primary schools have a large fee to enter, which poor parents can’t pay. Some young girls don’t learn to read or write because of religion too. If their families believe that they shouldn’t go to school with other men, it isn’t an option at all. This is a problem for young girls that want to go to school. Luckily, more than half of the people in the village are literate.
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No School?
Did you know that over 100 million school-aged children don’t go to school? That's right. A lot of children in the world don’t go to school because they can’t afford it and/or they have to work at home to keep themselves from starving. The truth is, education makes less poverty and diseases. It prevents poverty by teaching the poor how to grow items to make them last longer and teach them how to take care of there family and build technical things that might help them make life easier and produce more so they get more money. Education helps prevent diseases by teaching children how to watch out for AIDS and other diseases. 46% of girls have no admission to basic education, but girls that do go to school have a bigger chance of their children making past 5 years old. This is some info of the primary school aged children that may or may not go to school. The country/territory with the least percent of primary-aged boys in school is West and Central Africa with only 62% of the boys in school and the one with the most are Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet countries with 93% of primary school-aged boys and believe or not, there are more boys that attend then enroll. The world’s average percent of primary school-aged boys that go to school is 80%. West and Central Africa have only 55% females in primary school (the least amount) and the country with most is East Asia and the Pacific with 92% of females in primary school. The world’s average percent of primary-aged females that go to school is 78%.
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100 million children don't go to primary school and fifty-five percent of them are girls. On average there are 88 literate women to 100 literate men, but in Pakistan it is 57 to 100.Twenty three countries don't have primary education and only about 47 countries have primary education.There are twelve countries with seventy-five percent not able to read. Seven hun million people above 15 can't read. Also, 132 million out of the 771 million that can't read above 15 are aged from 15 to 24 years old. The result is that 1/5 of adults cannot read at all. The primary school teacher student ratio is also not very good. It is fourty students per one teacher and a lot of primary school teachers are not really qualified.
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Below is a pie chart of the millions of children that are supposed to be in primary school, but they are not.
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Citations
UNICEF. "Basic Education." UNICEF Statistics. Available from http://www.childinfo.org/areas/education/. Internet; accessed 8 February 2008.
UNESCO. "Literacy for life summary." Education for All, Literacy for life. Available from http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0014/001442/144270e.pdf Internet; accessed 8 February 2008.
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Comments (24)
na\'im said
at 11:34 am on Feb 13, 2008
I like the page. It has a lot of interesting information. I fund a site with lots of information for you. http://www.google.com/Top/Reference/Education/
May said
at 11:59 am on Feb 13, 2008
Cool page. what is being able to read versus not. I mean I could read a few words when I turned 2, but not really read. Overall pretty good! I like how the font is consistent.
Baby Emmy said
at 12:00 pm on Feb 13, 2008
This wiki is so cool. It looks a little messy though.
shoshie the shoshie said
at 12:08 pm on Feb 13, 2008
I love it, though you could organize it a liittle bit better.
margaret said
at 11:06 am on Feb 14, 2008
The "there" link doesn't work.
Gary Falgout said
at 11:30 am on Feb 14, 2008
The pages are starting to come together. It is looking really good. Your comments should give more details. Also, it is very important that YOU LOG OUT each time or your name will stay in the edit page and anyone can change content under your name.
Amos said
at 10:47 am on Feb 25, 2008
Your blurb explaining the village has long sentences that could be made into two or three. Try editing this.
Maggie-May said
at 11:02 am on Feb 25, 2008
Your graph is blurred.
Amos said
at 11:47 am on Mar 3, 2008
There was one "fact" that doesn't make much sense. You put that children have to "work at home to stop themselves from starving. Working at home does not stop them from starving, try rewording this.
May said
at 12:13 pm on Mar 3, 2008
what do you classify reading to be?
shoshie the shoshie monster said
at 9:27 am on Mar 4, 2008
Here and There? How about Here and Here?
Elllie said
at 1:43 pm on Mar 4, 2008
It's good, but I'm not sure that you should link your page to the Women in the Village page. If you are going to, at least put a paragraph linking it to economics. Or any other page.
Cole said
at 1:51 pm on Mar 4, 2008
This seems very good. I think you have done a very great job.k
Shelby said
at 1:51 pm on Mar 4, 2008
You should say something other than "automatically become illiterate", because it is not always true.
Cole said
at 1:52 pm on Mar 4, 2008
didn't mean to type in "k". This computer is messed up.
Isaac said
at 2:19 pm on Mar 4, 2008
Make the bottom graph bigger.
na\'im said
at 2:37 pm on Mar 4, 2008
This is very good but you need to move the firs graph up and get rid of some of the back to top links.
Kelly said
at 2:52 pm on Mar 4, 2008
Great page. Isn't it so bad how so many people don't go to school, especially since if you don't go to school, you won't be able to get a good job, making it so that your children will have to work, so they won't be able to go to school. It's like a chain reaction, a very horrible chain reaction, in which everyone wishes they will wake up and it will just be a dream but they never wake up and it's sad and they pity everyone else because if they give the money the people who need to go to school will spend it, and then they will need more, and if you continue to help them this way, they will become intelligent, but you will become poor, and you can most likely only help one family and not everyone so you are not really stopping the problem just taking it off someone's hands and then you will be poor and you will not be able to help anyone else and so so many people don't bother and we need someone to come up with a better way to help people because the plan that people simply use without really thinking about doesn't really WORK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wow, that was long. Okay, anyway, so, as I was saying, If people don't get education, the money everyone donates won't really help anyone, because the poor are going to spend it on something that isn't really what they need because they weren't educated and then they will need more! People need another plan, or else there is going to be another problem besides global Warming. No one knowing about it. Humans need to start doing something different or some new problems are going to start appearing, I bet many of them similar to Global Warming, because no one knows that certain things cause other things that are the problem we've got to fix.
I just think you should think about that.
System Administrator said
at 10:52 am on Mar 10, 2008
The first paragraph is good, but take out the "though" in the sentence telling that seventeen people can't read. P.S. This is peete
Andrea Bittle said
at 12:48 pm on Mar 16, 2008
One sentence reads "Seven hun million...." could you check this please?
Maggie-May said
at 8:09 pm on Mar 20, 2008
Good page. I think that it is horrible that some children can never do more than dream of school. Many children who are fortunate enough to have schooling have to walk many miles to get to their school or treat school as last priority. The saddest thing: The uneducated children go unheard. Global Warming is a serious problem. However, if we are so caught in it, will children in countries where education is uncommon remain illiterate? Yes, human kind is destroying the earth, but that does not mean that our species is unimportant. May I say it now: I THINK GLOBAL WARMING IS HORRIBLE AND SHOULD BE GIVEN A LOT OF ATTENTION!!!!!! Anyway, we hear so much about how other creatures have just as much right as us to live that I believe that perhaps we are throwing away the thoughts of our OWN species. We need to help the poor children who are suffering. Education could actually cut population growth. How? Which of the two jobs needs help from one or more children?
a: planting a field
b: selling insurance
The answer: B: selling insurance. A job for which education is necessary. Also, a person would not need to have a lot of babies to do this job. Thank you.
Karlton Tate said
at 8:57 am on Dec 14, 2008
Isn't so SAD that so many people don't have school which means that they cant get a job which means their children cant go to school which means they cant go to school like Kelly said
Mia said
at 5:49 pm on Dec 17, 2008
I sort of agree with you, because hunger and diseases are bigger of an issue.
priyan said
at 3:14 pm on Jan 28, 2009
Education is not to bad
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