Education And Citizenship: The Universal Declaration Of Human Rights

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Education and Citizenship. Do they go hand in hand? Is education required to be a good citizen? Yes, and No, A good citizen should know how to vote, to keep up with current events, laws of their country and so on and basic human rights. Yet they are not taught this in school but instead they are taught useless things which is a waste of time and money. A good citizen is someone who knows how to keeps themselves educated and up to date on current events in their school, city, state, country and even the world. So they can make educated choices in helping their community. It will also help them respond to a crisis in a moment’s notice. And yet they are actually taught as said by Boy in a Band “But I know how Henry the 8th killed his women, …show more content…
What are the basic human rights you ask they are the “Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is a milestone document in the history of human rights? Drafted by representatives with different legal and cultural backgrounds from all regions of the world, the Declaration was proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly in Paris on 10 December 1948 General Assembly resolution 217(III) A as a common standard of achievements for all peoples and all nations. It sets out, for the first time, fundamental human rights to be universally protected.”(United Nations …show more content…
Allan and Thompson stated “That 43.1% of the students will owe one thousand dollars to ten thousand dollars in debt, 29.2% of the students will have up to ten thousand to twenty-five thousand dollars in debt, 16.5 % of the students will have up to twenty-five dollars to fifty thousand dollars in debt, 5.9% of the students will have up to fifty thousand dollars to seventy-five thousand dollars in debt. 4.2 % of the students will have up to seventy-five thousand dollars to one hundred and fifty thousand dollars in debt, 1.2% of the students will have over a one hundred fifty thousand dollars in debt. No one wants this kind of debt and this is all because the price of college has gone up one hundred and fifty percent since 1995and not to mention the fifty percent increase in the cost of other goods and services (Allan and Thompson The Myth of the student loan

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