Right To Education


The right to education is very important in those days.  Education is a fundamental human right. It transforms lives across the world. Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. Every citizen of India have the right to go to school. Education is a right not a privilege.  Today, almost 70 million children across the world are prevented from going to school each day. As of 2015, 164 states were parties to the Covenant.

The right to education also includes a responsibility to provide basic education for individuals who have not completed primary education from the school and college levels. In addition to these access to education provisions, the right to education encompasses the obligations of the students to avoid discrimination at all levels of the educational system, to set minimum standards of education and to improve the quality of education.

"Everyone has the right to education. Education shall be free, at least in the elementary and fundamental stages. Elementary education shall be compulsory. Technical and professional education shall be made generally available and higher education shall be equally accessible to all on the basis of merit. Education shall be directed to the full development of the human personality and to the strengthening of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms. It shall promote understanding, tolerance and friendship among all nations, racial or religious groups, and shall further the activities of the United Nations for the maintenance of peace. Parents have a prior right to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children.”

Education is formal institutional instructions. Generally, international instruments use the term in this sense and the right to education, as protected by  instruments, refers primarily to education in a narrow sense. The 1960 Convention against Discrimination in Education defines education in Article 1(2) as: "all types and levels of education,  access to education, the standard and quality education, and the conditions under which it is given. 

I conclude that every generation looks up to the next generation with the hope that they will build up a nation better than the present. Therefore, it is the sign of freedom, a controlling grace, and basis of successful life. Education is not a preparation for life, education is life in itself. 

Source: wikipedia

Date: 08/03/2019