EDUCATION WILL SHAPE THE WORLD

Education makes you free. 

School today is fundamental, without education and culture people would be easily controllable and they won’t be able to express their thoughts.

In my opinion, education is one of the most important things in the world, education has a big power, it allows people to work, to not make the errors made in the past, to express their own opinion.

Malala, an activist for education who was shot by the Taliban but survived, once said:”Education will shape the world” and I'm sure she’s right. But I don’t like school as it is. We students go to school and listen to our lessons to learn several subjects, then we go home and we read and repeat several times the same things, but even doing that, we don’t remember much. Probably, if the lessons were more interesting and more involving, the students will be more interested and more involved, and as a result, they will be more motivated to study.

So, I think school is fundamental, but our school system isn’t very good.

(Alex, 2sc)

Don't take education for granted

Recently my classmates and I have watched videos and read texts about education around the world. We’ve discovered that more than 260 million children can’t go to school and they can’t get any education for the rest of their life. Most of them live in poor countries, especially in Africa. In those countries armed groups prevent children from going to school, because if children get an education, they’ll be able to move to another country and find a good job. 

In my opinion education is as important as water and food for our life, because education creates our future. But very often we students take school for granted because since we were 5 we went to school and because we don’t want to study through classical methods, like spending hours on books. But in the Middle East not everyone can go to school. In fact the Taliban destroyed more than 400 schools to prevent children from studying. 

A very special girl fought for the children’s rights: Malala. When she was a teenager she was encouraged by her father to write a blog for the BBC under a pseudonym. In that blog she wrote about the threat  of the Taliban in her country. But one day, while she was going back home from school, she was shot by a Taliban. She was taken to an English hospital where they saved her life

 As Malala said: “One pen, one book, one child and one teacher can change the world.”

 (Leonardo, 2sc)

School is for everyone and ensures a great future!

School is a beautiful place, it’s beautiful because you can make friends and learn new interesting things. Have you learnt anything interesting this term?

I’ve learnt, for example, that school is very important, but so many children cannot go because of child labour, military forced recruitment or  forced marriages, religion or poverty.

Do you know who Malala is? Malala is a Pakistani girl who, after opening a blog where she talked about the right to education for women and children, was shot on the school bus by a Taliban. She was moved first to a military hospital, where she was operated, and then to Birmingham. Now, she said, she is the happiest girl in the world,  because she is fighting for something very important. She is fighting to ensure safe education to forgotten children, who want  peace and change. There are also humanitarian organizations that try to help children. Do you know any of them? If not, I will suggest one: UNICEF!

In conclusion, I think we are very lucky because we can go to school, and thanks to it we can improve ourselves and grow up.

What do you think about school?

(Marina, 2sc)