Education for Sustainability: Quality Education Is A Necessity in Modern Day
Education therefore helps to reduce inequalities and to reach gender equality. Education makes you a better person and teaches you various skills.
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Introduction
Education is the most powerful weapon we can use to change the world and for self-enlightenment. This is so since quality education equips one with capability to interpret things rightly and applying the gathered information in real life scenarios.
Sustainable Development Goal 4
Sustainable Development Goal 4 is about quality education and is among the 17 Sustainable Development Goals established by the United Nations in September 2015. The full title of SDG 4 is "Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all.
What is importance of education?
Education assist a person hone their communication skills by learning how to read, write, speak and listen. Education grow's critical thinking. This plays a vital role in teaching a person how to utilize logic when making decisions and interacting with people. Education unlocks up a world of possibilities for individuals by empowering them with knowledge. It is the cultivation of learning in various ways. People with good academic and educational backgrounds tend to get well-paid jobs. The higher their education and accomplishments, the better employment options they get. People who grew up poor but educated themselves have high chances to transform their lives, thus contributing to a decrease in society’s poverty rates. Education helps countries grow economically since it is about getting knowledge and being able to apply it wisely to our lives and, at the same time, improving other people’s lives. One of the benefits of education is that the educational system teaches us how to obtain and develop critical and logical thinking and make independent decisions.
Why people are lacking education?
Even in schools, a lack of trained teachers, inadequate education materials and poor infrastructure make learning difficult for many students. Others come to class too hungry, ill or exhausted from work or household tasks to benefit from their lessons.
How is poverty related to education?
Poverty and education are inextricably linked, because people living in poverty may stop going to school so they can work, which leaves them without literacy and numeracy skills they need to further their careers.
What are the targets?
| Target 4.1 By 2030 | Ensure that all girls and boys complete free, equitable and quality primary and secondary education leading to relevant and effective learning outcomes. |
| Target 4.2 By 2030, | Ensure that all girls and boys have access to quality early childhood development, care and pre-primary education so that they are ready for primary education |
| Target 4.3 By 2030, | Ensure equal access for all women and men to affordable and quality technical, vocational and tertiary education, including university |
| Target 4.4 By 2030, | Substantially increase the number of youth and adults who have relevant skills, including technical and vocational skills, for employment, decent jobs and entrepreneurship |
| Target 4.5 By 2030, | Eliminate gender disparities in education and ensure equal access to all levels of education and vocational training for the vulnerable, including persons with disabilities, indigenous peoples and children in vulnerable situations. |
| Target 4.6 By 2030, | Ensure that all youth and a substantial proportion of adults, both men and women, and achieve literacy and numeracy |
| Target 4.7. By 2030, | Ensure that all learners acquire the knowledge and skills needed to promote sustainable development, including, among others, through education for sustainable development and sustainable lifestyles, human rights, gender equality, promotion of a culture of peace and non-violence, global citizenship and appreciation of cultural diversity and of culture's contribution to sustainable development |
| Target 4.a, | Build and upgrade education facilities that are child, disability and gender sensitive and provide safe, non-violent, inclusive and effective learning environments for all |
| Target 4.b By 2020 | Substantially expand globally the number of scholarships available to developing countries, in particular least developed countries, small island developing States and African countries, for enrolment in higher education, including vocational training and information and communications technology, technical, engineering and scientific programmes, in developed countries and other developing countries |
| Target 4.c By 2030, | Substantially increase the supply of qualified teachers, including through international cooperation for teacher training in developing countries, especially least developed countries and small island developing States. |
Hence, these are the targets for Quality Education.
Conclusion:
Finally, it may be concluded as Education makes you a better person and teaches you various skills, Education therefore helps to reduce inequalities and to reach gender equality.
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