MMS SEM 1

DIV B
NAME

ROLL NO.

Gayatri Potdar

21

Isha Prabhudesai

22

Girish Gadappa

23

Pankaj Prasad

24

Reena Delvia

25

Role of education especially

for the girlchild.
When we talk about an literate person we many times confuse ourselves
considering him/her to be an educated person. We are wrong. There is
quite an amount of difference between the two. India is among one of the
major countries that is recognized as a knowledge and education hub. It
has got a talent pool in different pools including medicine, management,
technology and others. Many big companies prefer to hire the human
resources from India as it has got a higher number of management
graduates passing every year. However, the one question that strikes here
is literacy another name of education? If the country has high literacy
levels, does it mean country has highly educated people? Let us analysis

the fight literacy v/s education:

Literacy and education are termed as same thing but the literacy has got
indirect relation with education. Literacy is about acquiring the skills and
learning, while education is about applying these skills and learning for
benefit of other people. Society or country.
Literacy mainly revolves around acquiring the ability to read and write
whereas education is about overall development of a person making it a
complete human who not only read or
write but also has the ability to think in broader terms and analysis the
things rationally.
Every literate person cannot be called an educated person. Education is a
much broader concept than literacy.
Literacy cannot make a person wise but education makes a person wiser
and provides with the understanding of distinguishing between right and
wrong.
The learning received while becoming a literate can be forgotten but
education lives when even the learning is forgotten.
Literacy might make people feel superior to others, but only educated
people are superior who know how to respect elders and pay due
importance to their colleagues work.
The people who can read and write, but use abusive and fowl language
are literate but definitely not educated.
Literate people working at higher positions and misusing their positions
and degrading others are the biggest example of uneducated people.
Conclusion

Education is about knowing your skills, abilities and the learning, and then
using them in the right direction at the right time. Educational institutions
can make all the students literate but cannot make all of them educated.
Education changes a person as a whole. Educated people understand their
responsibility towards the society and country. It is more of using the ethical
practices to bring a real change in the society.
In todays world being literate is hardly of any value. What proves to
be useful and important is education.

Importance of Education
Imagine a world without schools and colleges! Impossible, right?
No matter how much we hate waking up early for school or
studying all night for those tests and exams, we all know that
education is very
important. Now, I am not saying that an
uneducated man has no chance of being successful or an
educated man will surely do well in life. Exceptions are always
there. However most of us will agree that an educated person
gets better opportunities in life. It is easier for him to become
successful and realize his dreams as compared to someone who is
uneducated. Other than success and economic prosperity, there
are various other reasons why education is almost necessity in
todays world. They are as follows:
1. For a happy and stable life
If you want to lead a happy life and enjoy the good things the
world has to offer, you certainly need to get educated. A great
job, a good social reputation are few of the many benefits of
being an educated person. Education is a must for a promising
and secure future and a stable life.
2. Money
An educated person has more chances of landing up a good high
paying job. Everybody wants a good life but the good life!. It may

be called as the root of all evil but most people will agree that
money is important for survival in todays world. The more
educated you are, the better career options you have!
3. Equality
If we want to see the world as a just and fair place where
everyone is given equal opportunities, education is what we
require. Education is a must if we want to do away with the
existing differences between different social classes and genders.
It opens a whole world of opportunities for the poor so that they
may have an equal shot at well paying jobs. Education also plays
a major role in women empowerment.
4. Makes you self dependent
Education is very important if you want to be a self dependent
person. It helps you become financially independent but that is
not all. Education also makes you wiser so that you can make
your own decisions.
5. Turns your dreams into reality
What is your dream, your aim in life? Do you want to become
rich? Do you want to be popular? Do you want to be an extremely
successful person who is respected by people? Well, the key to all
this is education. Of course there are exceptions, like sportsmen
who dont really owe their success to their education. However in
most cases, your degree is what helps you realize all your
dreams.
6. Saves you from being fooled/cheated

Education saves you from being exploited and fooled. We live in a

country where we enjoy a number of rights and freedom. It is
easier to take advantage of innocent and illiterate people. They
may be trapped into signing false documents or be deprived of
some right which they have because unlike an educated person
they are not well aware of their rights and freedoms .
7. For economic growth of the nation
Australia, USA and Japan are few countries with very high literacy
rates. These countries are extremely prosperous and the citizens
have a high per capita income. On the other hand, in
underdeveloped and developing nations, where literacy rate is not
as high, a number of people are still living below the poverty line.
Education is vital for the economic prosperity of a nation!
8. Society
We all live in a society which has its own set spoken/unspoken
rules and one of them is education. The society expects you to go
to school followed by college, get a job, settle down etc. In fact
education helps you become a useful member of the society. An
educated member certainly has a greater chance to contribute to
his community. Education helps you become an active member of
the society and participate in the ongoing changes and
developments.
9. Makes you confident
Your educational degree is considered as a proof of your
knowledge by many. If you are educated you have more chances
of being heard and taken seriously. Generally, an uneducated man

will find it harder to express his views and opinions owning to lack
of confidence. Even if he does so, people may not take him
seriously. Education gives you the confidence to express your
views and opinions.
10. Makes the world a safer and more peaceful place
Education majorly affects our understanding of the difference
between right and wrong. An educated person is well aware of the
consequences of wrong/illegal actions and he is less likely to get
influenced and do something which is not legally/morally right.
Also, a number of uneducated people who live a poverty stricken
life owning to lack of opportunities often turn to illegal ways such
as theft and robbery to solve their problems. If you are educated,
you are well aware of your rights, the law and your responsibilities
towards the society. Hence, education is an important factor
which contributes in social harmony and peace.
11. Helps you understand the world we live in
Education is what you need if you want an answer to your
whats and hows and wheres. It helps you understand the
world you live in. You get to know more about your surroundings
as well as the whole world through subjects like history,
geography, science etc.
12. Respect
Everybody likes a wise and knowledgeable person! Educated
people are considered highly reputable in the society. The more
educated you are, the more respect you will get from those
around you.

13. Education and healthcare

Illiteracy often breeds ignorance and this ignorance may prove to
be dangerous when it comes to healthcare. Educated people
know better about preventive methods which protect them from a
number of diseases. An illiterate and ignorant person is more
likely to ignore the symptoms and avoids seeking medical aid
unless the problem becomes very serious. Hence education
enables you to take better care of yourself as well as your family.
14. Keeping up with the world
We live in an ever changing world. New technologies keep coming
up and if you dont want to be left behind, you must keep up with
the world which is moving really fast. Without education it will be
really difficult for you to adapt to all these changes. An educated
person is much more aware of the latest technologies and all the
changes that are taking place in the world. For example, an
uneducated person may not know about the benefits of the
internet whereas an educated person uses this gift of technology
regularly for work as well as for entertainment.
15. Overcoming Superstitions
Superstitions are baseless, useless and may affect your life
negatively. Illiterate and uneducated people often tend to hold
certain superstitious beliefs. Education and awareness are the
best ways to combat superstitions and replace such beliefs with
reason and logic.
If education is so important is it accessible to everyone? Even today in
many parts of the world girls and women are deprived of education. In India

effective literacy rates (age 7 and above) in 2011 were 82.14% for men and
65.46% for women. This gap should be filled for the growth and betterment
of the country.

Role of education for the girlchild

To be educated means I will not only be able to help myself, but also my
family,my country, my people. The benefits will be many.
-MEDA WAGTOLE, SCHOOLGIRL, ETHIOPIA

When you educate a girl, everything changes.

Girls' Education

A smart investment
Educating girls is the most powerful and effective way to address global poverty.
Room to Read supports girls so that they not only graduate, but also develop the
skills they need to negotiate key life decisions.
Finishing secondary school leads to smaller, healthier families, lower HIV
infection rates, and higher wages. Educated women are more likely to educate their
own children ending the cycle of illiteracy in one generation.

Long-term, holistic approach

The barriers to education facing girls in the developing world go far beyond simple
economicscultural bias, tradition and safety concerns often stand in the way. We
ensure each girl gets the material and emotional support she needs to succeed in
school and beyond through an enhanced approach that includes academic support,
mentoring and life skills training.

Educated women are healthier.

An extra year of girls education can reduce infant mortality by 510% and can reduce the spread
of HIV/AIDS and other preventable disease.

Educated women earn more.

Providing a girl with one extra year of education beyond the average boosts her future wages by
20%.

Significant inequalities still exist

Of the 793 million illiterate people in the world, two-thirds are female.

Girls' and Women's Education

Women and girls in the developing world are often denied opportunities for
education. Lack of education limits prospects, decreases family income, reduces

health, puts women and girls at risk of trafficking and exploitation, and limits the
economic advancement of entire countries.
World Education believes that education for girls and women is the single most
effective way to improve the lives of individual families as well as to bring economic
development to poor communities worldwide.
World Education has a long history of successfully working with local partners to
design, manage, and evaluate community-based initiatives to advance the
conditions of girls and women. World Education's programs help girls enroll and stay
in school and help women gain access to or create new educational, financial, and
social resources in their communities. They also help girls and women improve their
own lives, the lives of their families and the conditions in their communities. For
parentsand especially mothersthis means creating conditions that ensure their
daughters have equal access to basic education, are able to make informed
decisions about their futures, and are able to protect themselves from trafficking,
sexual exploitation, HIV, for example.
By improving educational opportunities for girls and women, World Education helps
women develop skills that allow them to make decisions and influence community
change. In turn, these programs have a positive impact on some of the most
profound issues of our time: Population growth, HIV, peace and security, and the
widening gap between the rich and poor.
Investing in Education Improves Gender Equality
Investing in girls is smart, says World Bank President, Robert Zoellick. It
is central to boosting development, breaking the cycle of intergenerational
poverty, and allowing girls, and then women50 percent of the worlds
populationto lead better, fairer and more productive lives.
Educating women and girls is fundamental to development and growth
because learning and skills enable all people to live healthier, happier, and
more productive lives. Research shows that providing girls with an extra
year of schooling can increase individual wages by up to 20 percent, while
also lowering birth rates, which can have a profound economic impact. An

increase of one standard deviation in student scores on international

assessments of literacy and mathematics is associated with a 2 percent
increase in annual GDP per capita growth. The benefits of education can
also transmit across generations as more educated people have fewer
children and provide their children with better health care and education.
Curbing the intergenerational transmission of poverty is especially
important for girls and women.
The Bank plays a key role in advancing gender equality through girls
education, building on an over 20 year foundation of research, funding,
policy dialogue, and partnerships. The Banks commitment and actions are
illustrated in a new Companion Note to the WDR, Getting to Equal:
Promoting Gender Equality through Human Development. The Companion
Note links the WDR 2012 framework (the interactions between households,
markets, and institutions) and policy recommendations to the Education
Strategy 2020, Learning for All, with examples of global success stories.
Reaching the Most Disadvantaged Girls and Making Education Count
A combination of effective policies and sustained national investments in
education have resulted in tremendous gains in access to schooling. Yet
WDR 2012 points toward three challenges for the future of girls education:
improving learning outcomes, addressing the needs of severely
disadvantaged populations, and reducing segregation in fields of study.
Evidence shows that it is what students learnnot the number of years that
they spend in school that leads to growth, development, and poverty
reduction. As the WDR 2012 notes, Only 27 percent of children ages 10
and 11 in India can read a simple passage, do a simple division problem,
tell the time, and handle money. The WDR 2012 and the Education
Strategy 2020 stress learning and addressing constraints faced by
populations contending with multiple disadvantages: gender, poverty,
rural/urban divides, ethno-linguistic background, and disability.
When an education system fails to deliver learning, the failure is often
severe for poor and disadvantaged children and young people. The
Education Sector Strategy 2020 addresses the final education policy

recommendation of the WDR 2012 in that it aims to improve the labormarket relevance of education by focusing more on the match between
skills acquired and skills required. With women representing 40 percent of
the global labor force and growing, any discussion of the linkages between
education and the labor market must include how all people are given the
opportunities to pursue the livelihood they desire.
Moving the Pendulum Forward on Girls Education
As one of the founding agencies of the Education for All (EFA) movement,
the Bank, along with United Nations partner agencies, has worked to
improve the quality of education and learning for all, especially girls. It also
has served as both a convener and a bank of knowledge, helping reenergize the global debate on gender equality in education and accelerate
the collective global response to the persistent challenges of womens
equality and empowerment. A growing number of Bank-supported impact
evaluations of education projects, such as those in Cambodia, Colombia,
Malawi, and Pakistan, are shedding new light on the gender impact of
scholarships and other demand-side interventions, as well as on
governance reforms that enhance school performance and accountability.
In September 2010, the Bank pledged an additional $750 million through
2015 to help countries meet the education MDGs of universal access and
gender parity. The Bank will continue to work through partnerships such as
the United Nations Girls Education Initiative and the Global Partnership for
Education to advance gender equality in education.
Education is very important for every child whether boy or girl. It is sad that
some communities still discriminate against the education of the girl child.
About 57million children around the world are not going to school. The
report, Children Still Battling to go to School, finds that 95% of the 28.5
million children not getting a primary school education live in low and lowermiddle income countries 44% in sub-Saharan Africa, 19% in south and
west Asia and 14% in the Arab states, UNESCO said. Girls make up 55%
of the total and were often the victims of rape and other sexual violence
that accompanies armed conflicts, UNESCO said. As the world celebrates

Malalas birthday let us look at some of the reasons why girls should get an
education.
1. FUTURE EDUCATED GENERATIONS An African proverb says, If we
educate a boy, we educate one person. If we educate a girl, we educate a
family and a whole nation. By sending a girl to school, she is far more
likely to ensure that her children also receive an education. As many claim,
investing in a girls education is investing in a nation.
2. DECREASE INFANT MORTALITY: Children of educated women are
less likely to die before their first birthday. Girls who receive an education
are less likely to contact HIV & AIDS, and thus, less likely to pass it onto
their children. Primary education alone helps reduce infant mortality
significantly, and secondary education helps even more. The Girls Global
Education Fund reports that when a child is born to a woman in Africa who
hasn't received an education, he or she has a 1 in 5 chance of dying before
5.
3. DECREASE MATERNAL MORTALITY: Educated women (with greater
knowledge of health care and fewer pregnancies) are less likely to die
during pregnancy, childbirth, or during the postpartum period. Increased
education of girls also leads to more female health care providers to assist
with prenatal medical care, labor and delivery, delivery complications and
emergencies, and follow-up care.
4. DECREASE CHILD MARRIAGE: Child marriage in some cases
involving girls as young as 6 or 8 almost always results in the end of a
girls schooling. The result is illiterate or barely literate young mothers
without adequate tools to build healthy, educated families. On average, for
every year a girl stays in school past fifth grade, her marriage is delayed a
year. Educated girls typically marry later, when they are better able to bear
and care for their children.
5. DECREASE POPULATION EXPLOSION: Educated women tend to
have fewer (and healthier) babies. A 2000 study in Brazil found that literate

women had an average of 2.5 children while illiterate women had an

average of six children, according to UNESCO.
6. INCREASE INVOLVEMENT IN POLITICAL PROCESS: Educated
women are more likely to participate in political discussions, meetings, and
decision-making, which in turn promotes a more representative, effective
government.
7. DECREASE DOMESTIC & SEXUAL VIOLENCE: Educated girls and
women are less likely to be victims of domestic and sexual violence or to
tolerate it in their families.
8. DECREASE SUPPORT FOR MILITANCY: As women become more
educated, they are less likely to support militancy and terrorism than
similarly educated men.
9. IMPROVE SOCIOECONOMIC GROWTH: Educated women have a
greater chance of escaping poverty, leading healthier and more productive
lives, and raising the standard of living for their children, families, and
communities.
These and many more are some of the valuable reasons why we should all
support education for girls. For every boy that is educated, every girl should
be educated too.

WHAT WOULD IT TAKE TO IMPROVE GIRLS' ACCESS TO

EDUCATION?
According to UNICEF, experience in scores of countries shows the
importance, among other things, of:
1. Parental and community involvement -- Families and communities
must be important partners with schools in developing curriculum and
managing children's education.

2. Low-cost and flexible timetables -- Basic education should be free or

cost very little. Where possible, there should be stipends and scholarships
to compensate families for the loss of girls' household labour. Also, school
hours should be flexible so children can help at home and still attend
classes.
3. Schools close to home, with women teachers -- Many parents worry
about girls travelling long distances on their own. Many parents also prefer
to have daughters taught by women. Skilled staff with the right knowledge,
understanding and experience are required in order for governments to
implement successful plans for girls education. These staff need to ensure
access for girls from all backgrounds, regardless of race, ethnicity, religion
or disability. In particular, we support our partner governments to ensure
there are teachers and education officials who are able to develop policy
and curricula, monitor education, and ensure that girls have equal
educational opportunities. South Africa and Jamaica have introduced
training programmes to help teachers deal with gender violence in
he classroom, and make them more aware of their own attitudes and
behaviour. In Malawi, the government has revised the curriculum to remove
gender stereotypes from textbooks. In Bangladesh, efforts to employ and
empower women teachers through specific criteria for recruitment,training
and incentives are evident.
In our dialogue with governments, we support efforts to improve the
learning environment for all, and in particular girls. A number of initiatives
have an important impact on parental decisions to enrol girls. These
include:
creating better learning environments for girls through the provision of
separate latrines, employing more female teachers, and providing a more
gender-sensitive curriculum; and
providing more boarding facilities for girls where there are not secondary
schools in easy walking reach of all communities.
4. Preparation for school -- Girls do best when they receive early
childhood care, which enhances their self-esteem and prepares them for
school.
5. Relevant curricula -- Learning materials should be relevant to the girl's
background and be in the local language. They should also avoid
reproducing gender stereotypes.

Malala Yousafzi, the Pakistani schoolgirl brought to England after being

shot in the head by the Taliban, will address the United Nations today. She
will mark her 16th birthday by delivering a speech at the UN headquarters
in New York to call on governments to ensure free compulsory education
for every child.
It will be the teenager's first public speech since she was attacked on a bus
in Pakistan's north-western Swat valley after standing up for her right to go
to school in her home country.
She will tell a delegation of more than 500 young people: "Let us pick up
our books and pens. They are our most powerful weapons.
"One child, one teacher, one pen and one book can change the world.
Education is the only solution. Education first."

A lesson at the Pahla Kadam residential camp school in Uttar Pradesh, India. The
school has about 105 pupils, all girls, and five teachers. It offers an education to girls
who are vulnerable to non-enrolment and early drop-out. They attend a one-year
course, after which 95 per cent go on to attend upper primary school.