Tee Ann Yheen -Illiteracy among Children around The Globe.

Illiteracy among Children around The Globe.

by Tee Ann Yheen 18225

                Nancy, the daughter of UTP's gardener is the best living example of illiteracy-child in the 21st century. Illiteracy is defined as the inability to read, write and comprehend languages that occur among children. Children around the world that perform illiteracy are mainly due to poor financial background, mental and physical disability and terrible environment influence.

                First and foremost, families that are facing poor financial background will experience difficulties in sending their children to school or institutes. Every parent surely hopes that their children can go to the school, gain knowledge and become an useful person for the society later in the future. The wishes and hopes are always get restricted by financial problem, parents have no choice but to give up their children's education. Some of them are always too busy working and earning money, they eventually neglected the importance of their children's education.

                Moreover, mental and physical disability also affects the progress of a child academically. For example, a hyperactive child could not pay full attention during the class and always tends to move and they find it difficult to learn something, but fortunately usually, these kind of patients they have high mentality. While physical disability such as deafness child faces serious problem in learning and those who are disable to walk or move will be looked down by other children and affects their studies. However, there are some exceptions among these unfortunate children, as instances, Albert Einstein
the mathematician or physicist who had a learning disability and did not speak until age 3. He had a very difficult time doing mathematics in school and it was also very hard for him to express himself through writing;  Alexander Graham Bell had a learning disability too, but both of them become the most popular scientist to contribute to civilization nowadays.

                Last but not least, terrible environment can also influence a children interest in studies. Those children who grow up in a complicated problem society and always live between smokers, robbers and so on usually will not be able to study well. Hence, I think that environment is very important to instill the interest of studying in a child. Parents are responsible in providing the suitable environment for them.

                In conclusion, bad financial problem, handicapped and mentality-problem and terrible environment are the main reasons of birth of illiteracy children in the world. “All that mankind has done, thought, gained, or been; it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.”
― Thomas Carlyle