Although as a family we’ve barely used our education system (three sons

Comment on General Election 2010 Poll Results by David.

Although as a family we’ve barely used our education system (three sons home educated, one started school at 15) I think a free education system is essential to Britain’s future.

I was watching a documentary, I think it was on climate changes and population control came up and education is essential to population control.

In India there’s a region that’s overcrowded, but has a stable population and it was attributed to girls getting a high standard of education.

Basically the well educated Indian women waited until later in life to have children and tended to have only one child, where poorly educated Indian women were giving birth to children at an unsustainable rate!

An Indian official compared a well educated Indian woman from the region to other parts of the country. He said something like the women from the region get a good education, get a good career and at around 28 years have one child, they don’t want lots of children as it changes their life style. In comparison other Indian women by the time they are 28 have 4 kids!

The program canvassed a small group of students (probably a single class) from the region asking how many siblings they had and the majority had no siblings with I think only one having two!

There are no population controls in the region, (and India has tried some draconian methods of population control in the past!!!) but because of women gaining a very high standard of education (one of the highest in the world apparently), population was controlled.

Considering population increases we are seeing now through out the world, we need people to choose to control the number of children they have and education is one of the answers. So unless we want to encourage poorly educated Chavs to breed like rabbits, lets keep the education system free for all.

That being said I do find it interesting when I see documentaries on African children and there’s always the theme they want a great education (that they have to pay for) so they can get a good job and get out of poverty. I recall a news report or something on some African kids living on dumps and abusing glue (think it was glue), all one little kid wanted was a school uniform so he could get an education, very sad :-(

Then we have British born kids who completely waste the opportunity to gain a good education, even the worst schools can provide an OK education IF you have children who really want to learn.

David