Education In Latin America Essay

We all say how much we hate school and that we wish we didn’t have to go but in all truth we are so lucky to be able to get the chance to graduate high school and hopefully go to the college of our dreams. In Latin America, the country of Brazil doesn't have the best education. In Latin America alone education is difficult to come by. Although the education system in Brazil has changed throughout the years schooling is still a struggle for people. Part of the problems Brazil’s learning system has is that they started to develop their education institutions late. Some parts of Brazil do not have enough space in their schools to educate everyone that is in need of it. Brazil has come up with a solution in which the government has created countless programs to help students from lower income families get a partial or total scholarship at private universities. These programs are going to benefit not only the child and their family, but the entire community of Brazil. If the children get a better education their opportunities for jobs will improve immensely. This not only helps out the child but also the economy as well. As the job
Education Faces Challenges in Brazil, “Latin America’s largest country still lags behind the average spending rates of countries in the organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), which is 6.3 percent of GDP.” (“Education Faces”) Another article called The Challenges of Education in Brazil states, “By the early 20th century, most of the population in Western Europe, New England and Japan was already literate, while in Brazil and most other countries in the world, education reached only a tiny minority of the population.” (Shwartzman 6) This article also states that,“Believe it or not Brazil was a rural society that was controlled by a centralized empire in the 19th century.” (Shwartzman