For the past few days, I was pondering on something worth writing and I guess education is relevant and fitting, just in time for the opening of classes.
Education.It is everybody's right and not a privilege. But with education getting expensive nowadays, it is becoming more of a commodity where only the must-haves can enjoy.
Education is peculiar.Unlike any other human possessions, it cannot be stolen. It cannot be robbed. It doesn't loses its value over time. Once a person has it, it's part of him.It cannot be taken away but it can be shared.
We acquire education in private and exclusive schools as well as in public institutions.
Getting a private education entails a lot of money. We know school fee increases every year. The cost of books, school supplies, fare increases too.I never heard of these basic expenses decreasing but skyrocketing over the years.
Hence, a number of students from the private institutions have their exodus to the public schools because of the monetary considerations.
However, this shift has fueled the perennial problem which public schools annually experienced. There is the shortage of classrooms and books. Insufficiency of teachers.If not dilapidated school buildings and defective book contents. I hope this predicament would not lead to a half-baked learning.
When I was in grade school, I never experienced tagging a stool into class with me, afraid of not getting a place to sit. There was more interaction inside the classroom. We were not too overcrowded with only thirty students in a section. We had a one to one student book ratio.Absolutely,computers were unheard of.
I can only hope that education will be accessible to everybody irregardless of whoever has a larger pie. In that sense, I could say that education is really a right.
