UNESCO'S Early Childhood Care and Education Web Page

The insights that I gained from Unesco were found under the news section. One article spoke on the role of education in a world of seven billion people.  Unesco believes that

v In a world of seven billion everyone has a right to an education

v Considers education to be the best insurance against poverty. It stresses the importance of education for sustainable human development and supports countries to improve access and quality and to redress inequalities in their education systems.

v Champions the efforts of 75 million teachers to provide quality education, and advocates for the training and recruitment of an additional 2 million teachers to achieve Education for All by 2015.

The article every child has a right to an education speaks on the Convention on the rights of the Child. On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Convention, the biggest challenge is to eliminate disparities in education and to ensure that the core obligations of States regarding the right to education remain in the forefront, not only for accelerating progress towards the Millennium Development Goals, but for pushing the Education for All agenda forward. The right to education is not only a human right in itself but also essential for the exercise of all other human rights.

The article Early Childhood Care: The Earlier the Better states that Early childhood care and education carries enormous potential to address this emergency. From the World Conference on Education for All in Jomtien in 1990 to the Dakar World Education Forum in 2000, UNESCO has constantly promoted an expanded and inclusive vision of learning. Over the past year, we have organized world conferences on inclusion, literacy and adult learning, education for sustainable development and higher education to further encourage this integrated, lifelong vision of learning. We also call it a holistic or a comprehensive approach. It simply means that we consider that learning enhances a person’s potential throughout life, from the earliest years through adulthood.

These articles opened reinforced my beliefs about early childhood education. I do believe that every child deserves the best education possible and that they deserve a teacher that will stop at no cost to make sure that they have imparted valuable and life changing lessons into a child