“World’s Education Day”

What does this mean to you or other people? Does it have a meaning to you? Is it important?
World Education Day can be acceptable and meaningful to some people. Generally they already know how important education is in this era, but some people might not care or know what it means to them. They might not even see the benefit.

Today, education is becoming more and more important for human beings, it is like a competition among the countries contemporary all over the world. Many people are trying to attend to the best school and to get a good job for what they have expected in their lives, which may give them a better opportunity than ever before. Many countries are already developed while some countries are still being developed in education or living standards.
Apparently, many people who live in developed countries have lost their jobs and go back to school. This can help them improve and have successful lives when they graduate from the college or university and restart their jobs.
I believe some people are going to school because they want to get a good job and good salaries. However some people want to get an education in order to share with those who don’t have any money or the opportunity to go to school, after they graduate.

If I compare Myanmar with Thailand or other developed countries, the education might be really different. You will see many people cannot even read and write in Myanmar. In my country (Myanmar) many educated people go to other countries because some want to make a lot of money, economic issues, political problem or various other reasons. Consequently many states have schools, but they do not have teachers. So we cannot get a good education. In Thailand, there are many incredible educational schools and teachers so foreign students come and study. My country isn’t far from Thailand, but many people don’t know what is going on in my country.
Anyway, today our global situation is continually improving in technology and educational systems. So in many places people can read and write. However, if you can only read and write, this is not useful and good enough among the educated people. Before world war one (WWI) and two (WWII), people who could read and write might be recognized as an educated person or wise among their social network. At that time, the landowners or factories hired employees who could work really hard or had a strong body structure and gave them better salaries than the other employees.
During this period of time, the factories or other places of employment hire people who are educated, and graduate from the best and most well known colleges or universities. Those employees get better salaries than others. We all know education is required in the society and is able to make our lives and world better.
Once again I would like to compare my country’s education statement with educational statements of other countries. In my country, many people cannot read, write or speak in Burmese, my country’s official language. Some people don’t travel to the city or other places; they just live in the same place until they die. Even though some people travel, they don’t take any transportation because they don’t have an ID card or cannot speak official language. The reason they do not take transportation is because of checkpoints where they are required to show ID card and prove they can speak Burmese. At these check points, soldiers impose varying levels of consequences, which can include going to jail, fines, being sent back home or whatever soldiers decide.
Today various people say, “ The world is becoming like a village.” This is because the transportation systems have been improving more and more. People can get anywhere more easily in less time than before around the world. But in my country some people are still unable to travel, “Their village is their world” until they die.
One of my former teachers told me about many places where he and his friends had been in Myanmar. There wasn't a road to go through to the village. When they arrived, they had to make their own road. The inhabitants live merely on the mountains. One village has only seven houses more or less. He said the inhabitants do not communicate to each other by writing or using the phone. If they want to communicate to a distant village personally, they have to walk and talk with other villagers. The distance between the villages is quite far.
My friend Naung Naung used to tell me about the places he had been as a volunteer teacher. He had no car or the other type of transportation. They went to the market once every five days and they had to buy everything they needed for supplies. If they couldn’t get there, they wouldn’t have a place to buy supplies they needed. Many young people did not want to study, they just wanted to work at the farm because they thought even if they became educated, and they would still have to work on the farm. Those young people think all over the world people have to work on farms on the mountains to be able to feed themselves. Their parents also don’t encourage them to study, but they encourage them to see how many mountains they could clear and grow vegetables or rice for the year or next.

Today World Education Day allows me to relive and tell you about the people who live in the mountains and villages. Everything that is happening to them is because they don’t have teachers and schools. The other problems such as not being able to travel, not being able to speak official language, and not being able to communicate to each other forces them to become tree cutters. Consequently this in turn is damaging the natural environment.
For those people, I believe we all have the responsibility to do them a favor. The people who are educated should share their skills or knowledge with these people.