3. What happens when a country of the size of India has over 3
million children living on the streets? Or has over 150 million
children working as bonded labourers? Or one out of every six
girl child does not live to see her 15th birthday? What happens
when despite having a national policy for compulsory primary
education, only 50% of children have access to education?
The statement "Children are the future of the nation" stops
making sense, then! In fact, it sounds like an ominous
prophecy. For how can we explain that even after 60 years of
independence, half of India's children are illiterate? Despite
identifying primary education as a key thrust area and
possessing one of the largest networks of schools in
the world?
Clearly, we have a lot to answer for. And as concerned citizens
do something about it; something meaningful, something
4. concrete, something urgently. No more do we have the
luxury of blaming the system or postponing our actions.
The time to take collective as well as individual
responsibility to remedy the present situation is here. Right
now! And also we need many more Smiles to cater to the
vast (increasing) number of children in our country's
population.
5. Why education is important in our life ?
It is very easy to explain importance of education. No
human beings are able to survive properly without
education. Education tells men how to think, how to
work properly, how to make decision. Through
education only one can make separate identity. It is
most important in life like our basic need foods, clothing
and shelter. In the beginning we learn how to interact
with others, how to make friends because of education.
As I remember when my parents had enrolled my name
in school not only I learnt the alphabets and numbers
but also I made friends, interacted with them and with
teachers.
6. With further development we were faced with the sense
of competition and desire and other such emotions and
feelings. We also learnt to control our emotions and
feelings that taught us how to act in different situations.
Education is not just restricted to teaching a person the
basic academics, say computers, mathematics,
geography or history but instead education is a much
larger term.
7. If you want to find out the impact of education on any
individuality, you better do an intense observation to the
ways of well-educated people and then compare them
with an illiterate man. You would get a clear picture of the
education and its accurate concept. Education is one of
the important factors which formulate the persona of a
person.
8. Education is a productive and beneficial factor in a
person’s life. It is everyone’s right to get and the training
of a human mind is not complete without education. Only
because of education a man is able to receive information
from the external humanity, to notify him with past and
receive all essential information concerning the present
which will help in the future.
9. When one travels around the world, it is being observed
that human nature is the same, whether in India or
Australia, London, Europe or America.
Conservative education makes independent thinking
extremely complicated. If we are being educated merely
to achieve distinction, to get a better job, to be more
efficient, to have wider domination over others than our
10. life will be shallow and empty. If we are being educated only
to be scientists, to be scholars wedded to books, or specialists
addicted to knowledge, then we shall be contributing to the
destruction and misery of the world.
We may be highly educated, but if we are without
meaningful combination of thought and feeling, our lives are
incomplete and clashing. Education develops a meaningful
outlook on life.
The individual are different but to accentuate the
differences and to encourage the development of a
definite type education is must.
Education is not just a matter of training the mind , it is
about building the personality of an individual for his fullness
in society .
11. Education should help us to discover lasting values;
unfortunately, the present system of education is making us
submissive, emotionless and deeply thoughtless.
Systems, whether educational or political, are not changed
without explanation; they are transformed when there is a
fundamental change in ourselves. The individual is of first
importance, not the system; and as long as the individual does
not understand the total process of himself, no system can
bring order and peace to the world.
12. AWARENESS IN THE SOCIETY
A child with illiterate parents is burdened with a significant
disability, not only in school, but in life itself. It is to be
hoped that his grandparents or other members of his
extended family, who are skilful readers, will have a great
deal of input into his day-to-day activities. Otherwise, these
are a few of the many disadvantages he will encounter,
13. compared to children his age who are fortunate enough
to have literate parents.
• He will start school without knowing the nursery
rhymes and fairy tales which are prominent in the programs
of primary grades.
•These items of juvenile literature are an inherent part of
our culture and will be well-known by most of his
classmates, so he is significantly impoverished already.
•He may have a problem sitting still and listening attentively
when the teacher reads.
• No one has ever read to him, so his listening skills may not
be well-developed. He may lack motivation for learning to read.
Mom and Dad seem to get along fine without the skill. There are
no books, magazines or newspapers around the house
14. He won't see many advantages of putting forth the effort
needed to learn to read.
He is likely to lack the experience of playing with challenging
toys or games. Besides being stuck in a lower economic
bracket and unable to afford many extras, his parents would
15. be unable to read instructions on how to assemble more
complicated playthings, or to decipher the rules for table
games.
16. EFFECTS OF ILLETERACY ON
SOCIETY
Recent studies show that there is an increasing rate of
illiteracy all over the world. A study conducted by
WSI(World Statistics Institute) shows that over 27% of
people are illiterate globaly. Another study by the same
institute shows that the speed at which illiteracy rate
ascends is 32%. These rates are quite important, as illiteracy
has terrible effects on society.
The most important effect of illiteracy on society is that, it
works as an inhibitor. That is to say, the more illiterate
people there are in a country, the harder it will be for the
country to develop.
17. This fact could be clarified with an example:
•America(whose illiteracy rate is below 5%) and
Canada(Illiteracy rate: around 8%) are developed
countries, whereas countries, like Turkey and Iran(Illiteracy
rates: 61% and 43% in order) are undeveloped countries.
• Illiteracy has got a kind of "genetic" effect. The children
of illiterate people are more likely to be illiterate that
those who aren't. Even if the parents don't want their
children to be illiterate, their children, observing the
parents, see that they somehow manage to live and adopt
the idea that illiteracy isn't actually a bad thing. And since
people develop most of their character during childhood,
they choose to go with illiteracy.
18. Another major effect of illiteracy is that, illiterate people
believe in the said things easily. They do not investigate what
was said or told to them. When looked at the pages of
history, it can be seen that, while most uneducated people
are slaves, guardians and assistants; people who are
educated are mostly kings, queens and sultans. They are not
slaves because they wanted, but because people superior to
them -in terms of education- made them so.
All these significant results of illiteracy affect society in a
bad way. So, illiteracy rates must be tried to cut down.
19. CASE STUDY
Education plays a important role in everyone's life
whether rich or poor. It helps in the progress of people
and a person recognize his name through education .
In the 21st century its importance has increased . But
still about 26% of Indian population is still illiterate.
There are many stories and one of the story is of
Mohit.
23. Blessed be childhood, which brings down something of heaven into the
midst of our rough earthliness.--Henri Frédéric Amiel
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they
have never failed to imitate them. -James Baldwin
A child’s life is like a piece of paper on which every passerby leaves a
mark.
Children speak in the field what they hear in the house. - Scottish
Proverb
Children are our most valuable natural resource. - Herbert Hoover
A child's tear rends the heavens. - Yiddish Proverb
Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of
man. - Rabindranath Tagore
Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an
24. ADULT LITTERACY
We saw a statistic that startled us. We pay a lot of attention
to statistics related to children’s ability to read. However, it’s
not often that we pay as much attention to adult illiteracy,
although we know it exists. The startling statistic stated that
one out of every five adult residents, in a particular mid-
western city, has difficulty in reading .
Of course, we know if students leave school they are unable
to read, unless they seek further assistance, chances are
they will become illiterate adults. However, it’s not every
day that you hear discussions on the impact this may have
on their children and how they’ll help them navigate
through school.
25. In order for children to become good readers, it’s
important that we should not ignore parents who are
unable to read. Many adults get their news and
information from the television or radio . If you know an
adult who is unable to read, or if you are an adult who is
unable to read, there are many things that you can do in
order to increase your skills and assist your child.
One should do some efforts to literate the society so
that the coming future is bright. We spoke to many
parents and tried to bring awareness about education.
Finally we were successful in educating some of the
children in the locality situated near gomtinagar.
26.
27. Table 1: Children of primary school age in school (percent), India 2000 and 2006
2000 2006 Change 2000
to 2006
Male 79.2 85.2 5.9
Female 72.3 81.4 9.1
Urban 82.5 88.5 5.9
Rural 73.8 81.5 7.7
Poorest 20% 66.1 69.4 3.2
Second 20% 69.2 81.2 12.1
Middle 20% 78.8 87.5 8.7
Fourth 20% 82.1 92.2 10.1
Richest 20% 89.1 95.7 6.6
Total 75.9 83.3 7.5
28. Children of primary school age out of school by sex,
area of residence, and wealth quintile, India 2006
