Education is the most powerful
weapon that can help to transform the world and this notion really
needs to be pressed forward. Education is well thought-out as a human right for
all and it requires to be pursued by individuals.
However, there are some youths who, either
willingly deny themselves or are unwillingly denied the exercise of this right.
The reasons for this are very diverse but the major ones include laziness and a
lack of interest on the part of individuals. On the other hand, policy makers
and appropriate institutions are not doing enough in ensuring that learning
institutions should be within reach of the youths. Furthermore, they also need
to ensure that necessary teaching and learning materials are available in the
academic institutions.
It has been noted that school
dropout rate in Malawi and other developing countries is very high in remote
areas. This takes us back to the aforementioned policy makers and stakeholders
who really need to come up with comprehensive strategies in order to address
the existing barriers. The fact that there are more schools in urban and semi-urban
areas than in rural areas needs not to be overemphasized. Thus, schools are
very far away from the youths and young children cannot manage to cover the
long distances every five days in a week. When they realize that they cannot
manage, they just drop out a few months or years after enrolling.
Besides this task, they (policy
makers and stakeholders) also need to constitute deliberate policies to ensure
that the youths in remote areas are going to school. For instance, as some
quarters have suggested that primary education should be made compulsory, such
an intervention would help to call back those that dropped out of school
because of laziness or due to other trivial reasons.
Let us unite and promote education
in remote areas for individual development of youths in remote areas as
well as for the development of third world countries as a whole.
