Understand Poverty and Education

Abstract

The purpose of this essay is to present the arguments on poverty in relation to education. The writer presented the ideas in a systematic way by highlighting the poverty and educational aspects. Similarly, the writer talked about the Millennium Development Goals and the role of education and poverty in MDG. At last, the writer concluded the essay by presenting his arguments on education that education lead to poverty and disease reduction. Through proper educational system world can eliminated the curse of poverty.

Understand Poverty and Education

Poverty

Poverty is a situation or way of life that arises as a result of the impossibility of access or lack of resources to meet basic human physical and psychological wear and tear affecting the level and quality of life of people, such as food, housing, education, health care or access to drinking water. It also considered the lack of means to access such resources, such as unemployment, lack of income or a low level of the same. It may also be the result of processes of social exclusion, social segregation or marginalization. In many countries of the Third World, it is said that one is in poverty if their salary (if the count), not enough to cover the needs that include the basic basket of food. The situation of persistent poverty called pauperism.

Applying the concept of poverty in some countries against others called underdevelopment (poor countries). The concept of poverty is fundamentally economic, but also has impacts political and sociological. In most contexts considered a negative, but in some areas, spiritual voluntary poverty considered a virtue to involve the renunciation of material goods (monastic vow of poverty, along with those of chastity and obedience). Historically, poverty has been the subject of various ideological valuations involving different social.

An attempt at a definition reflects the fact that poverty should be seen as the result of economic and social model, practiced and applied in a territory and time, for various economic and political agents that occur in the excluded sectors of society benefits or partial running model. These sectors excluded from such benefits conventionally call them poor or more as part of the existing poverty.

Poverty is not for a cause that should be treated as such to combat it, is the result of complex processes and extended in time, which are difficult to see with the naked eye and require sustained research to ensure their understanding before any attempt to raise to end poverty (Payne, 2003; Gilbert, 2009).

Education

Education is a process of socialization and enculturation of people through which they develop physical and intellectual abilities, skills, study skills and ways of behaving ordered with a social purpose (values, moderation of dialogue, debate, hierarchy, teamwork, physiological regulation, care of the image, etc.).

In many Western countries or formal school education is free for all students. However, due to the scarcity of public schools, there are also many private and parochial schools.

The function of education is to help and guide the learner ...