Quick world stats:
total population: 99.1%
male: 99.1%
female: 99% (2015 est.)
Haiti (a lot higher than I originally thought)
total population: 60.7%
male: 64.3%
female: 57.3% (2015 est.)
male: 64.3%
female: 57.3% (2015 est.)
Estonia
total population: 99.8%
male: 99.8%
female: 99.8% (2015 est.)
male: 99.8%
female: 99.8% (2015 est.)
Ethiopia
total population: 49.1%
male: 57.2%
female: 41.1% (2015 est.)
male: 57.2%
female: 41.1% (2015 est.)
Guinea
total population: 30.4%
male: 38.1%
female: 22.8% (2015 est.)
male: 38.1%
female: 22.8% (2015 est.)
World
total population: 86.1%
male: 89.9%
female: 88.2% (2015 est.)
male: 89.9%
female: 88.2% (2015 est.)
note: more than three-quarters of the world's 781 million illiterate adults are found in South and West Asia and sub-Saharan Africa; of all the illiterate adults in the world, almost two-thirds are women (2012)
I couldn't find information about Japan or United States literacy rate from this source. In the United States education from k-12 are federally funded, therefore students do not have to pay for their education unless they attend charter or private schools. However, in may countries across the world, such as Haiti, do not have privileges of obtaining an elementary education for free. Before the earthquake in 2010 50% of Haitian children attended primary schools, after the earthquake 2.5 million children didn't have a school to even attended to. On top of tuition they have to pay for uniforms, test fees, textbooks, and supplies. “The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.”
B.B. King
Personally education should start in the homes before they start "formal education", that the parents have the responsibility of installing a love of learning in their children. As parents help their children find their interests and help them build it, it will provide confidence into the children that will help them in the subjects of the education they have a struggle with. Parents will be able to share the hardships with the children and remind them about when they first started learning about the subjects they love, that it takes hard work and persistence to become adequate in all aspects of education. I wish I had an upbringing with parents who taught me more about hobbies, such as gardening, crocheting, woodworking, and building. That I would have an easier time in school applying what I'm learning to my skills, that I would be able to apply math better to woodworking and building. Baking as well requires mathematics, but because I've been shaped to believe that math is my weakness, I believed it rather than trying to put mathematics into something I love.
Formal education in of itself is failing the children it is serving as well. Many institutions and the government are viewing children as if they are at the same standard.
I may have the opinion of the unpopular, but I feel that we need to treat our k-12 educators with more respect. They deserve an increase of pay, Parents and community members need to realize what is best for the future of children and be willing to sacrifice to build up the future generations. In my hometown they barely passed a bond vote by 42 votes, they needed 60% to pass a bond that will provide the finances for a new high school (severely needed) and a new elementary school. However, there were 7 people who felt that they needed a recount and paid $2,300 to have a recount so that the bond wouldn't pass. This breaks my heart, the need for a new high school would benefit the student tremendously. I understand that taxes are not the most enjoyable. Yet overcrowded school lack the resources for the students to get the attention they need from educators when they are struggling. It takes a toll on the teachers as their classes are over crowded.
I couldn't find information about Japan or United States literacy rate from this source. In the United States education from k-12 are federally funded, therefore students do not have to pay for their education unless they attend charter or private schools. However, in may countries across the world, such as Haiti, do not have privileges of obtaining an elementary education for free. Before the earthquake in 2010 50% of Haitian children attended primary schools, after the earthquake 2.5 million children didn't have a school to even attended to. On top of tuition they have to pay for uniforms, test fees, textbooks, and supplies. “The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.”
B.B. King
Personally education should start in the homes before they start "formal education", that the parents have the responsibility of installing a love of learning in their children. As parents help their children find their interests and help them build it, it will provide confidence into the children that will help them in the subjects of the education they have a struggle with. Parents will be able to share the hardships with the children and remind them about when they first started learning about the subjects they love, that it takes hard work and persistence to become adequate in all aspects of education. I wish I had an upbringing with parents who taught me more about hobbies, such as gardening, crocheting, woodworking, and building. That I would have an easier time in school applying what I'm learning to my skills, that I would be able to apply math better to woodworking and building. Baking as well requires mathematics, but because I've been shaped to believe that math is my weakness, I believed it rather than trying to put mathematics into something I love.
Formal education in of itself is failing the children it is serving as well. Many institutions and the government are viewing children as if they are at the same standard.
I may have the opinion of the unpopular, but I feel that we need to treat our k-12 educators with more respect. They deserve an increase of pay, Parents and community members need to realize what is best for the future of children and be willing to sacrifice to build up the future generations. In my hometown they barely passed a bond vote by 42 votes, they needed 60% to pass a bond that will provide the finances for a new high school (severely needed) and a new elementary school. However, there were 7 people who felt that they needed a recount and paid $2,300 to have a recount so that the bond wouldn't pass. This breaks my heart, the need for a new high school would benefit the student tremendously. I understand that taxes are not the most enjoyable. Yet overcrowded school lack the resources for the students to get the attention they need from educators when they are struggling. It takes a toll on the teachers as their classes are over crowded.
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