Essays on Compulsory Education

Both China and the USA are some of the biggest contributors to the global market. Both economies produce large quantities of good that are shipped globally. Since bulk production requires a lot of labor, and the prevailing poverty rates among the citizens, children start to work in the dangerous environments of the labor market. The safety and workers right as well as the employment standards are irrelevant when it comes to the means of eking a living. Consequently, children have joined the labor market to eke a living, denying themselves an opportunity to pursue education and develop a higher ...

Homeschooling is an effective way of educating the child because it creates the favourable atmosphere needed for the growth of curiosity, an essential factor for further exploration. Children who receive their education at home enjoy more freedom to experiment, evaluate and conclude the facts in a manner better than the children educated in schools. As per Gina Riley, one of the most impressive strengths of home education lies in the fact that the entire process revolves around the child’s intrinsic motivation to learn (3). It is this intrinsic motivation that prompts the child to look for more knowledge ...

Introduction

Around 264 million children under the age of 15 years are working, 64 percent of these jobs come under the child labor category in legal terms (Edmonds, 2015). Child labor has become one of the causes and one of the consequences of limited or slow economic growth. Child labor dampens the future economic growth via its negative effect on child development and decreases the current growth by rejecting the adoption of skill developing technologies and reduces the unskilled wages. The limited economic growth in developing countries, leads to facilitation of low-paid jobs that are filled by child labor. Therefore, ...

There is a growing trend among American families to abhor the traditional education model where students studied in groups and general classrooms. Families with such apathy for traditional classroom model prefer homeschooling, which is a new concept in the American education system (Lubienski, Tiffany & Jameson378-392). The U.S. Department of Education postulate that there is estimated about 1.1 million school going children who would rather be educated at home as opposed to attending the traditional classrooms (Cooper, Bruce & John 110-131). Some experts who argue against homeschooling postulate it as a threat to the traditional education model; however, it is a ...