global statistics
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25,000 children die each day due to poverty.
Unicef
3 billion people live on less than $2.50 a day
72 million children in the developing world were not in school in 2005
Nearly a billion people entered the 21st century unable to read a book
or sign their names.
Number of children in the world
2.2 billion
Number in poverty
1 billion (every second child)
Children out of education worldwide
121 million
1.6 billion people — a quarter of humanity
live without electricity
Less than 1% of what the world spent every year on weapons was needed to fund education for all the children around the world by the year 2000
It Never Happened
Global Education involves perspective taking
Seeing through the minds and eyes of others
“The object is to promote international understanding and
cooperation that might lead eventually to cultural and social
reconstruction” ...Pinar
“Learning about other people does not require us to relinquish our
values”
...Pinar
Critics of Global Education cite conspiratorial theories
“Global Education is part of a master plot to create a “New World Order.”
...Gary Kah
It would supposedly involve economic, political and religious
motivations
...Gary Kah
“To create one vast, conspiratorial government”
...Gary Kah
Response to critics of Global Education
“Global Education maybe vital not only for a well-rounded curriculum, but also for the very survival of the
human species”...Pinar
“Transcending traditional fears of foreign cultures and ideologies in
order to encourage global understanding is a first step an the realization of an internationalized
curriculum”...Pinar
“All Lives Have Equal Value”
...Melinda Gates