The Sustainable Development Goal I chose is to ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all. In this case, a quality education is the commonplace that is deployed in the civic event; everything ends up coming back to it and it is a core basis of everyone’s lives.. According to the United Nation’s website, 147 Million Children missed over half of in-person instruction due to the pandemic. To this day, there are still millions of children without access to a proper education. As the United Nations puts it “education is a lifeline for children in crisis.” A proper education can help children get out of poverty or whatever type of situation they are in. Education gives children access to opportunities they could have never imagined before. Similar to how athletes from poorer areas are able to get a full scholarship to a university and some eventually are able to play in the professional leagues, geniuses from areas of poverty are able to earn a full scholarship to a university where they end up in a successful career and are able to give back to where they started from. In order to do so, these geniuses still need a quality education from the start. It is not fair that people like us in first world countries have the privilege of getting a quality education with a proper curriculum from the start whereas people born in poorer areas of the world aren’t even though they had no control of that. If everyone had access to a proper education from the start, I believe that the top people in the world (CEOs, Billionaires, World Leaders and Politicians) would be a lot more diverse and there would be more perspectives at the top end of the spectrum instead of our current situation today.
Links used: https://sdgs.un.org/goals/goal4
I definitely agree with you! Quality education is something that should be delivered to all, regardless of their financial background. After all, one’s financial conditions are uncontrollable things that have no connection with your right to a proper education. I really like how you cited evidence from credible organizations like the UN to support your point. I’m curious to know how would you address this issue if you were a world leader or something. To be more specific, you could delve into how you would rectify the education quality of a specific third-world country, instead of being too general. Overall though, great blog post!
I agree completely; Education continues to be an issue in lower-income countries, and even in high-income countries like the United States. The US preaches about commonplaces like “equal opportunity,” but the divide between schools is still vast, most noticeable if one looks at a school’s average SAT scores in relation to a school’s average student’s household income. It’s clear that individual income is massive factor and helps explain why poor countries simply don’t have the opportunity to perform well. Education should be a basic right, and being able to provide that is a societally good goal for the UN & US.