Identity and Social Change
I come from an Indian background, specifically from a Gujarati family. There is a great emphasis on business and education in a typical Gujarati household. The importance of career, academics and professional pursuits has always been a very important part of my personal identity and one of my foremost priorities in my own life. That is also why I strongly believe in the power invested in education to change the lives of millions of people. Having struggled for education myself, I firmly consider illiteracy as a very important social justice issue in the world. Sadly, this concern is not very apparent in the United States, despite the fact that 32 million adults (Washington Post, 2016) in the US can’t read. Furthermore, illiteracy is a very big concern back home in India. The average literacy rate is just 64% and for females it is even lower than the average (Census of India, 2001). Education has the power to change the course of a human’s life. It is a tool that can make an individual self-sustainable and independent. A literate country can depend on its citizens to eradicate other national issues such as poverty, unemployment, health disparities, food insecurities, etc. That is why I believe that governments and other organisations should focus on this issue and implement better strategies to enable access to education for all, especially in countries like India, where many young children spend their day doing labor jobs rather than being in school and carving a future for themselves. Education can uplift generations of individuals in a family and create a more holistic and viable world population. After all, what you study today, you will always carry and the world will know you by that. Your education will walk with you to the grave, if not further, and will stay beside even if everybody walks away.
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References:
Hiding in plain sight: The adult literacy crisis
Literacy And Level of Education
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