The social importance of education

We should all start raising awareness on an important social issue such as education, which will make some real impact on people.
Schools should be mission-driven institutions and not sheer employers.
Any nation with a low literacy rate and a public school system near collapse, is particularly vulnerable.
Capital markets have the power to transform the society we live in through responsible investing as a form of activism.
If only a small percentage of the funds allocated for the “war on terror” would be invested in education, the whole world will be better and safer.
It is not an idealistic approach, it can be achieved if we all “march with the mouse” by promoting the importance of education.
To better illustrate our point we refer to the following event:
Teachers is France have been striking against the French government’s plan to reduce the number of teachers in the upcoming years.
If the plan happens as expected the quality of education will deteriorate because in each classroom the number of students will increase. Therefore each teacher has less time to devote to every student.
On the other hand of the political spectrum the same government is planning to send additional troops to Afghanistan.

The importance of education and the risk of lack of it

Every nation’s future is strictly associated to how well it educates the current and upcoming generations.
It is disheartening to notice that “education” seems to be a nonexistent issue in any political campaign, especially in the present U.S. presidential campaign.
More than a million American kids drop out of high school every year, according to official statistics, in a world that is becoming more and more competitive every day.
“We have one of the highest dropout rates in the industrialized world,” said Allan Golston, the president of U.S. programs for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Education lifts families out of poverty and expands its horizons.
Illiteracy is one of the roots of problems dogging the world today.
Education should aim to promote interfaith understanding and stress multiculturalism and universal values.
Some teachers instead don’t have knowledge, but they are influential, because they use the schools to advance their own political agenda.
Real life is more complicated than black-and-white ideology.