Right to education

The adjustment to education has been recognized as a human right in a number of international conventions, including the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights which recognizes a adjustment to free, compulsory primary education for all, an obligation to setting secondary education accessible to all with the progressive first appearance of free secondary education, as alive as an obligation to creation equitable access to higher education, ideally by the progressive first order of free higher education. In 2021, 171 states were parties to the Covenant.

In 2019, an estimated 260 million children worldwide did not name access to school education, & social inequality was a major cause.

The Human Rights Measurement Initiative measures the right to education for countries around the world, based on their level of income.

The role of education for individuals, the society and the state

Education in all its forms informal, non-formal, and formal is crucial to ensure dignity of all individuals. The aims of education, as nature out in the International human rights law IHRL, are all directed to the realization of the individual’s rights and dignity. These include, among others, ensuring human dignity and the full and holistic developing of the human personality; fostering physical and cognitive development; allowing for the acquisition of knowledge, skills, and talents; contributing to the realization of the full potential of the individual; enhancing self-esteem and increasing confidence; encouraging respect for human rights; shaping a person’s sense of identity and affiliation with others; enabling socialization and meaningful interaction with others; enabling a grownup to species the world around them provides their participation in community life; contributing to a full and satisfying life within society; and empowering and allowing for the increased enjoyment of other human rights.

Education is also transformative for the state and society. As one of the most important mechanisms by which social groups, in specific indigenous peoples and minorities are maintain from generation to generation, passing on language, culture, identity, values, and customs, education is also one of the key ways states can ensure their economic, social, political, and cultural interests.

The main role of education within a society and the state is to: