Education: Right or Privilege?

In the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, education is established as a right. But in some cases it can be a privilege. Not every child in the world has access to education. In poor or authoritarian countries, being educated is a privilege. Those countries don’t value schools and don’t create an education system because the government considers educated people as threats to them, or because the countries don’t have money to afford schools. Most of the population of those countries considers that education isn’t worth it for their kids and they prefer to use them as extra-earning hands.
In developed countries there is usually a good education system, making their population better citizens and by that making the world better. But in my opinion, education is a privilege because not everybody can access and about one sixth of the world is illiterate and more than half of that part is women.

Pedro Lopes, 10ºF, Nº21