Gerald S.

Hibaya
EdM - 105
FEB. 23, 2019

Dr. Nancy Gonzales

REFLECTION

Education for all is our right somehow a privilege. It is our right to

be sent in school to learn how to read and write, learn more knowledge,
and share our day-to-day experiences which learning is more fun and
exciting. I call it a privilege, somehow, because not all students can
sustain the whole year due to a variation of problems that come along in
their lives. I am one of the examples of a privilege student who takes the
opportunity to go in high school way back 2002 with the help of my first
year adviser.

We all know that EFA is a global movement aimed in providing

quality basic quality education for all youths and adults; “Literacy lies at
the heart of EFA” (UNESCO, 2009). This is how the world sees the
significance of basic education despite of some different hindrances;
the world copes with these problems even in a slow progress, but slow
progress is still a PROGRESS. It means there are improvements in
implementing EFA goals globally.

Literacy is an ability to read and write for good academic

performance and individual success. Literacy also may serve as source
of empowerment, equality, and opportunity to join in civil activities in
both local and global setting. As Freire (1970) describes that reading the
word is reading the world. In addition, literacy is also a social
entitlement, a determinant of well-being, and a goal of human
development (Maddox, 2008; Nussbaum, 2006; Sen, 1999).

There are teachers have assigned in a remote areas where

indigenous people lived and hunger for education. These scenarios are
so common to happen anywhere in the world that literacy rates go low
because few programs are available in their languages (Mckenna and
Fitzpatrick, 2004).

To date, there are continuing studies with regards to this problem

and it is visibly seen in our community where literate parents, especially
mothers, tend to send their children to schools more than non-literate
parents (UNESCO, 2011).

I should say that EFA goals create greater impact in changing our
lives from the day it was started until this recent day.