Broken Country

Personal Essay Education is perhaps the most important service a country can provide to its people. Education leads to development, innovation, and growth; and also opens countless doors for people. Having educated people allows for the country to run in its most productive state, because its citizens are running in their own most productive state. Many times in this course we have discussed the how in order for liberation to happen education is what is needed. As Freire explains it, in an oppressor-oppression relationship the oppressor deprives those that are oppressed of proper education and instruction in order for them to thrive. This happens because if the oppressed become educated the will be able to do something about the situation …show more content…
Somalia is such a broken country in so many ways it is nearly impossible to determine what needs to be fixed first. For starters, one might start by establishing a government with actual authority, because currently it is a joke. The law is disregarded and is not even enforced, so by creating a government that is respected and feared it may be able to stop the warlords from controlling the country. If the warlords can be stopped the government can then focus on developing the nation beginning with schools. Due to the civil war, nearly 90% of all schools in Somalia have been destroyed and many years of education have been lost. So, hypothetically if one wanted to begin educational development in Somalia the first thing to do is build a school. The next major problem with education in Somalia is that 80% of teachers are untrained; so the next step is to train teachers so that they can be qualified to educate the future. The last step I believe should happen is to create a uniformed curriculum for the schools. Since there are no language barriers this is very doable and something that I believe needs to happen for schools to get on the right