What if the cure for cancer is trapped inside a person who can’t afford an education? As Nelson Mandela once said, “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” It is a tool that can change the workings of the world by bringing various ideas together to create something new. Nevertheless, today’s education is diminishing around the world because only privileged people have a chance to experience it; therefore education should be accessible to everyone, no matter what disparity is evident. Adolescents, who are classified as “unworthy,” do not receive an equal opportunity to experience a higher education, which contributes to the lack of academics necessary for a student’s …show more content…
Males and females are not given the same opportunities because men are seen more superior than women, which is evident in the course of history. For example, all forty-three presidents of the United States of America have been male. As a result of gender inequality, women’s chances in job opportunity is affected. In the article, “Gender: Gender and Education,” Christina states that “highly educated women hold positions as government officials and are important religious figures in countries as varied as Palestine, Egypt, Iran, and Qatar but their formal participation in political life is much more limited in other states in the region,” (Christina 882). The author proclaims that women are able to hold positions within the government, nevertheless, it is not of the same equality as men. Women do not experience the full extent of their learned knowledge because of their limited roles. Moreover, it is proven that with higher education women can increase their direct and indirect contributions to the financial market. It increases their productive skills, delays marriage, expands their working class, and minimizes their fertility rates. As a result, it increases women’s health and education and the education of their children if they do bear (Christina 883). In the text, the author emphasizes that if women and men were seen equally and obtained identical levels of higher education, …show more content…
This is the case because many adolescents are unable to obtain higher education due to their background, which results in a vast imbalance in education. Mentioned in the article, “Children, Racial Disparities, and Status of,” the author expresses that, “Among students classified with disabilities, black students are twice as likely as whites to be educated in a separate setting. Black and Latino children are significantly less likely than white children to receive special education,” (Moore 295). The writer emphasizes in the passage that education for these children, mainly blacks and Latinos, are limited; therefore the color of one 's skin can limit the quality of education received. Also, the state of being disabled results in a difference of setting and academic material taught, which could lead to a substantial impact on future opportunities. The disabled children are not taught the same curriculum as the more privileged students and do not acquire the special help they might need, which impacts the chance to receive a higher education in a desired field. Additionally, “Education, School,” notes that, during the 1980s and 1990s , Africa was affected considerably by numerous catastrophic forces. Many adolescents were unable to obtain education due to the AIDS pandemic, which left them with no shelter and guardians. On the same note, the Civil War, in many regions, turned the male students into