Now that September has entered, both we and our children, we must change the summer chip for the "back to school". Gone are the long summer days in which they have not stopped a single moment, in a few days the routines and school will return, the reunion with the old classmates or the new and "mysterious" adventure of a new course in the case of those who step on a classroom for the first time.
It is true that some will find it more difficult to adapt and others will be looking forward to the time (and recognize that in some cases it is not only the children who are wishing for it), but as we have said, for all that new school year will begin soon , what will be the beginning of a lifetime in school. We know How many years do our children spend in school?
When I think about the future of my children, it is linked to a future in school. It will be a long stage that begins with that first day of school and will end with some grown men and women with a whole future ahead, who knows, maybe they end up in college or maybe something we still don't know today. But, today, all this, all this student life encompasses in our country an average of 17 yearsDuring which our children will go through different school stages. But how is it in other countries?
According to a study of the Cornell UniversityIn New York, the United States, the differences between developed and developing countries are, as we imagined, shamefully large.
The study analyzes what it calls life expectancy in school from most countries. Thus, the first countries on the list, headed by Australia and in which Spain is in seventh place, have a hope of schooling between 20 and 17 years that is a lifetime if we compare it with the five years of Niger that occupies the last position of this ranking.
Although there has been a significant advance in the schooling of the world population, there are still countries in which children have to leave school to get to work and help in the family economy, or girls who are forced to abandon their studies for the mere fact of being girls. At the end of 1800 the number of women with studies was 21%, in 2008 we were 58%, we cannot deny that there have been advances, but there is still a long way to go.
The average hope of schooling among the most developed countries is about 15 years, this data is reduced as we observe data from developing countries or with restrictive systems regarding education.
What can we expect from the future?
The organization United Cities and Local Governments known by its acronym UCLG In English, he created a manifesto in 2010 that indicated a theoretical model of what the future of education would be like in 2030, some of his conclusions are not hopeful at all.
In 2011 it was estimated that 57 million children worldwide, of school age, would be out of it.
The literacy rate will vary widely from one area of the planet to another, with areas with a rate below 40%.
123 million people between the ages of 15 and 24 will not have the basic skills to read or write.
Of those 123 million, 62% will be women.
In many areas, the average age of abandonment of studies will be 7 years.
Perhaps, like me, my children do not realize until they are older than their luck of being born in a country where access to education is relatively simple, at least, until they reach university. Perhaps, we should keep in mind that great advantage that we now have that our children can enjoy a quiet education. They do not have to walk several kilometers to get to class, nor do they have to face those who do not want them to acquire knowledge to have the opportunity to get a better future.
Perhaps all this helps some to continue their studies and others to do something to change the future.
