Why we study

Have you ever thought that why we study? Japanese children’s scholastic ability is falling off. I think that school education became less strenuous, teachers are too mild, and so on. In particular, I think that Japanese children lack of the will to learn. Recently, the number of people who read books is decreasing. I don’t read books very much, either. However there are lots of children who can’t study all over the world. I’m interested in them, so I want to tell you about education of developing country.

In developing countries, children are precious labor force. They can’t live by only parents income, so children must work for them own family. They know study is important, but the cost of living is the most important thing.

Besides, they don’t have many teachers. It’s a strange problem for me, but it’s a big problem. Intellectuals don’t want to be teachers because of the low salaries. Teachers’ salaries are too low. When there are no teachers, children can’t learn anything.

Still children can’t study in school in school even if we raise money to make them school. In reality, all they need is money to live. For example, in Laos, there are some schools If children enter school, half of them stop going to school in a few months. Why? They study in the same classroom with different grades, because classrooms are scarce, and teachers too. In addition, students have no stationery. They study sharing two or three pencil with some other students. When someone uses a pencil, others can’t use it. They must feel that it’s a waste of time to do so, because they can’t study everything them own way and they can’t get money, so they can’t keep going to school. It’s a terrible environment. I think they need a better environment for working and studying.

I could understand that our environment to study is wonderful. We should know that. We can get lots of knowledge, and we can know what’s happening in this world anytime. To learn may change our future. That is why we study.