Our Part in Education

In our world with its immense diversity of cultures, there are so many varied forms of growing up, The way to which children grow up and are educated also depends on the economic life situation in which they live, which gender they belong to: who their parents are, what peer group they belong to, the region they live in, whether they are migrants or not; 

Many other dimensions determining and influencing children’s lives could be listed, my question is the following: Are we allowing all these dimensions to influence our decision on who and who can and may not have a quality education, or are we part of the small but growing group who says no matter who, no matter where, each CHILD has the RIGHT to an education.  We allow ourselves to be influenced by the majorities criteria and that is absolutely sickening!!!

From the perspective of children’s rights, three aspects of education can be differentiated.

1.       The  right to education

2.       Rights within education
3.       Rights through education.

* The right to education has to do with the question how far and what quality education is made possible for children.

* Rights withing education refer to the question regarding the context in which education is transmitted and how the children’s rights become effective within the education process.

* The rights through education refer to the matter as how education enables children to exercise their rights and to act as competent citizens.

On the 10th December, four intrepid bikers (Gerhard, Oscar and Rosca De Waal, and Peter Pretorius) will be departing Cape Town for Uganda (Kampala) on a long-haul ride in support of Quality Education in South Africa, to make quality education possible

 We at QE4SA  salute you and thankyou for this tremendous initiative you’ve taken. Thankyou for this great example.