"If you plan for a year, plant rice. If you plan for ten years plant trees. If you plan for one hundred years, educate children," the best lines by Confucius, worth recollection. As man advances in the challenges of life, the requisites of political and socio-economic stability continue to intervene its functioning in a way or the other. No sustainable socio-economic and political stability could be planned except educational excellence that stands vital for human dignified endurance.
If you look into economy of any country, education plays a key role of being successful. Not only does the individual gain an advantage from having education, but its economy also benefits. For the individual, their benefits would basically lay in the quality of life, having economy returns, the favor of having an education with a sustained and satisfying job. For the economy, the potential benefits lie in economic growth and the increase of shared values that support bringing the economy together socially. Depending on the individual and how far they're willing to continue their education, depends where you will be financially, in the future.
The higher incomes of more educated people could be due to differences in ability, motivation or socio-economic backgrounds, which themselves happen to correlate with years of education completed. This reasoning underpins the screening or signaling notion, that although schooling has no direct effect on productivity it does give employers a guide to applicants' qualities. This approach is also consistent with the labor market's fascination with credentials.
Over the past decade it has became an article of faith that education and skills make a vital contribution to economic performance. Deficiencies in national labor productivity and economic growth are increasingly attributed not to inadequacies in productive investment, but to educational shortfalls and weak labor skills.
Education is not only essential to the creation of democracies, it is essential to development, and in particular to what we today call "sustainable development." Sustainable development implies a balance between meeting immediate needs and looking to the future with a long-term vision.
Everyone knows by now that the hierarchy of human needs dictates that someone who is hungry and has a family to feed is not going to think of protecting the environment first. Because of this, much environmental destruction has been caused by the subsistence farming of poor families throughout the developing world. To reverse this phenomenon concerted efforts to meet the basic needs of poor families, as well as strong programs of education that are capable of instilling a long-term vision and teaching the responsible use of resources, will be indispensable.
According to surveys by UNESCO, more than 836 million adults in the developing world are illiterate. Around the world, one of every eight children is not enrolled in primary school, and more than one third of adolescents are not in high school. It is no coincidence that the vast majority of these unschooled youngsters and illiterate adults can be found in the poorest countries on earth, with Afghanistan lying on the top. The direct link between poverty and lack of educational opportunities has been demonstrated many times over.
Many leaders of poor countries complain the cost of providing decent educational opportunities is prohibitive. Saddled with debt, lacking infrastructure, and short of trained personnel, many nations in sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, South Asia, and elsewhere simply cannot afford to provide basic schooling for all of their children. However, this is not a problem of lack of resources, but rather a problem of resource allocation. Obviously, the resources necessary to provide educational services exist; it is just a matter of changing our priorities and redirecting them so that they benefit the needy children of the world.
The biggest problem of Afghanistan is its weak education system, the major cause of political instability and economic backwardness in the country. Terrorism, which has shaken the very foundation of the country, is the product of poor education system and poverty. Education system of Afghanistan is confronting many problems; lack of infrastructure, funds, corruption in education departments and inefficient utilization of the funds. Moreover the education disparity in the country has further aggravated the situation.
The private or elite institutions are very expensive and impart education on Western style. However the government's education institutions have obsolete syllabus. The students of government institutes are unable to cope up with the standard of elite institutes in this way a huge bay creates and produces harming effects for the society. Moreover the higher education institutions aren't equipped to cope up with required standard. The stress is put on the subjective type of education and research is rarely done.
Many developing countries; China, India and Fareast Asian nations put great stress on research and got the sunny outcomes. The education development scheme of these nations should be followed in order to make progress in this regarded.
The tumbling education system should be improved on war footing; the government as well as civil society should take active part to up hold the education in the country. Afghanistan has plenty of natural and human resources. The need of the hour is to utilize the natural and human resources efficiently and effectively to develop the country and in this regard standardized education could play active role otherwise the country would hardly flourish.
When we speak of the global economy and the developing world, I think it is important that we recognize the danger in the emphasis we place today on competitiveness. We have created numerous indices of competitiveness that show us which countries or regions offer the greatest incentives for investment, and where the profit margins are the highest. While competition may create efficient economies, efficiency alone is not enough. Compassion and solidarity are necessary to temper the competition of our open economies, so that those who are unable to compete are not left out altogether. To the rural farmer that lacks roads on which to bring his produce to market, to the child who works instead of learning to read and write, to the young adult for whom a university education is only a fantasy, competitiveness means only one thing losing.
When speaking of development, it is important to underscore the active and essential role of women in these processes. It is not a coincidence that the countries with the highest levels of human development also come the closest to offering equal opportunity and gender equity in their societies. Perhaps no society has yet reached the fullness of equality that most of us hold as an ideal, because though we speak about the importance of equal opportunities for women and men, we continue to commit the same errors: we exclude women from positions of power, give them no voice in community decisions, and cling to stereotypes and prejudices so deeply ingrained in us that we do not even realize we have them. That is a great human resource negated and a vast economic gain undervalued.
People with only very limited education often find it difficult to function at all in advanced societies. Education is needed for people to benefit from scientific advance as well as to contribute to it. Progress of the sort enjoyed in Europe was not observed in the illiterate societies that have gradually merged into the world economy over the last two hundred years.