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By Jo Besford (Director, Green Shoots)
Stark inequalities continue to confront South Africa. According to the World Bank, it is currently one of the most economically unequal countries in the world.
There is universal agreement that QUALITY education for ALL is one of the major strategies to break the vicious cycle of poverty and inequality! But actually delivering QUALITY education to the ALL is monumentally challenging in practice.
The complexity of achieving both QUALITY and ALL is shown in the 2020 Amnesty International report ‘Broken and Unequal: The State of Education in South Africa’. The report highlights that although major progress has been made in improving access to education (ALL), access to QUALITY EDUCATION still eludes many South African children.
The road to ‘quality education for all’ can be filled with potholes, diversions and many flat tires. So how do we, as a South African based education organization, plan and then navigate our part of the route in providing QUALITY education for ALL?
The road to ‘Quality education for all’ is still challenging. But the cumulative successes in achieving both QUALITY and ALL along the route ensure that the journey itself, not just reaching the destination, can change lives in an unequal society.
“It is through education that the daughter of a peasant can become a doctor, that the son of a mine worker can become the head of the mine, that a child of farm workers can become the president of a great nation.” – Nelson Mandela
URL:
https://www.wise-qatar.org/quality-education-for-all-it-always-seems-impossible-until-it-is-done/