Education strategy 2010
1.3 Education: investing in our common future
Education is both a right, and a route out of poverty – it is an investment in our common future.
- Education is a good investment: it improves health, reduces the spread of HIV/AIDS, has a positive impact on income and productivity – better educated girls have fewer, healthier children
- Education contributes to social stability – equipping and empowering citizens to address the underlying drivers of conflict and fragility
- Quality education helps tackle climate change- fostering innovation, scientific competence and social awareness supporting the implementation of low carbon technologies
“Schools have an especially important role. Educating people from an early age about how our actions influence the environment is a vital element in promoting responsible behaviour….Educating those currently at school about climate change will help shape and sustain future policy making, and a broad public and international debate will support today’s policy-makers in taking strong action now.” Stern Review
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Education empowers you to take decisions and is necessary ingredient for seeking healthy seeking behaviour in developing countries. Educational has a direct corelation to poverty and low social cultural status.The education of a women is essential because she is the caretaker of whole family and as such if she is healthy she can take care of others in a family.