A sobering account on the state of education and caring in our world... PPT created in the Fall of 2009...

2. 25,000 children die each day due to poverty. Unicef

3. 3 billion people live on less than $2.50 a day

4. 72 million children in the developing world were not in school in 2005

5. Nearly a billion people entered the 21st century unable to read a book or sign their names.

6. Number of children in the world 2.2 billion

7. Number in poverty 1 billion (every second child)

8. Children out of education worldwide 121 million

9. 1.6 billion people — a quarter of humanity live without electricity

10. Less than 1% of what the world spent every year on weapons was needed to fund education for all the children around the world by the year 2000 It Never Happened

11. Global Education involves perspective taking Seeing through the minds and eyes of others

12. “The object is to promote international understanding and cooperation that might lead eventually to cultural and social reconstruction” ...Pinar

13. “Learning about other people does not require us to relinquish our values” ...Pinar

14. Critics of Global Education cite conspiratorial theories

15. “Global Education is part of a master plot to create a “New World Order.” ...Gary Kah

16. It would supposedly involve economic, political and religious motivations ...Gary Kah

17. “To create one vast, conspiratorial government” ...Gary Kah

18. Response to critics of Global Education

19. “Global Education maybe vital not only for a well-rounded curriculum, but also for the very survival of the human species” ...Pinar

20. “Transcending traditional fears of foreign cultures and ideologies in order to encourage global understanding is a first step an the realization of an internationalized curriculum” ...Pinar

21. “All Lives Have Equal Value” ...Melinda Gates