Causes and effect:Illiteracy among children around the globe

Gulbahar Yazmyradova

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Petroleum Geoscience

Illiteracy among children around the globe

Nowadays, there are a lot of causes of illiteracy. For my opinion, there are three main point causes of illiteracy such as socially problems, family problems, and motivational problems. 

The most important cause of illiteracy is socially problems. Actually, some develop country is not care education for their countryside. Especially, there is a little school in my countryside at Viet Nam. The countryside's children do have not enough school for their studying. Furthermore, they have not conditions such as money and traffic for their learning because their family have not tuition for their and is very far with their school. Another cause of illiteracy is family problems. The first is history family, that mean is if their parents are worker, they also are worker. They don't care about their education. For example, I have known some family at my countryside. Parents are worker for my family. Their salaries are just enough family's life. Their children can not go to school. They just learn their working. After that, they become worker. Finally, the motivation is also cause of illiteracy. Nowadays, there are a lot of entertainments, which the children are very excited, don't like to go the school. Specifically, almost children who have lived at center city have a lot of new entertainment for them. They spend their time for there and don't care their learning. Moreover, almost people don't have literacy because they don't have plan for your future. They just think about their life in the present. For instance, I used to think to learn mayor and work about my life in the present. I didn't learn more English because I didn't think I go the USA. That is big mistake in my life. Now, I have to try to learn English very hard more than the other people. Consequently, the popular causes of illiteracy are socially problems, family problem, and motional problems. However, if we fix problems, we would have education in our life and without people is illiteracy.

Recent studies show that there is an increasing rate of illiteracy all over the world.A study conducted by WSI(World Statistics Institute) shows that over 27% of people are illiterate globaly. Another study by the same institute shows that the speed at which illiteracy rate ascends is 32%. These rates are quite important, as illiteracy has terrible effects on society. The most important effect of illiteracy on society is that, it works as an inhibitor. That is to say, the more illiterate people there are in a country, the harder it will be for the country to develop. This fact could be clarified with an example: America(whose illiteracy rate is below 5%) and Canada(Illiteracy rate: around 8%) are developed countries, whereas countries, like Turkey and Iran(Illiteracy rates: 61% and 43% in order) are undeveloped countries. 

Illiteracy has got a kind of "genetic" effect. The children of illiterate people are more likely to be illiterate that those who aren't. Even if the parents don't want their children to be illiterate, their children, observing the parents, see that they somehow manage to live and adopt the idea that illiteracy isn't actually a bad thing. And since people develop most of their character during childhood, they choose to go with illiteracy. Another major effect of illiteracy is that, illiterate people believe in the said things easily. They do not investigate what was said or told to them. When looked at the pages of history, it can be seen that, while most uneducated people are slaves, guardians and assistants; people who are educated are mostly kings, quenns and sultans. They are not slaves because they wanted, but because people superior to them -in terms of education- made them so. All these significant results of illiteracy affect society in a bad way. So, illiteracy rates must be tried to cut down.

In conclusion, the illiterates are dependants on the limitted benefit system of the nation. Moreover, it also creates many problems in social secruity system. The government should have appropriate measures to help reduce number of people who can not read and write. The countries will be richer and people will be happier if there is no the illiterates in.