#Poverty Question - Effect of Poverty on Child’s Education | UPSC Essay Model Answers
#Poverty
Question - Effect of Poverty on Child’s Education
Answer - Poverty as a concept does not carry economic connotations but also has social, humanistic, political and cultural dimension. When one talks about poverty one takes into consideration the economic deprivation faced by a person in his life.
However as Durkheim pointed out that one social fact must be studied in the light of other social facts and how one affects the other. Looking into this concomitant relationship between poverty and education, one can say that in India poverty is more common than prosperity because of lack of education
facility especially to children.
Poverty has a multitude effect on the learning process as it acts as a bulwark in the psycho-cognitive development of the child. It restrains a child tocompletely participate in the knowledge exercise which hampers his behavioral pattern.
India provided for Right to Education to all children from 6-14 years of age and engendered that process even in private institutions through reservation of 25% seats. However it has not been able to produce the desired result because of extreme economic deprivation on the part of families availing this facility.
Poverty has a direct impact on the school enrolment and dropout rate of students. Due to extreme poverty, where the survival of the family is at stake, parents are forced to send their children to work. A child is seen as a productive labour resource as against schools.
Most of this psychosis is built on short term interest without looking into the long term benefits of education.
