Education is a right, not a privilege.

Most countries do not realize this and neglect to help

the next generation of world leaders, doctors, educators themselves and people who will change
the world for hopefully the better. The United Nations of the world has made it one of their
priorities to educate everyone in the world. In the United Nations Article 26 of the 1948
Universal Declaration of Human Rights it states that everyone has the right to education and is
something every country should strive for (Education for All (EFA), n.d.). Education gives
others the ability to change the world with its poverty, promotes gender equality, improved
maternal health, encourages environmental sustainability, reducing child mortality rate, helps
combat diseases like HIV, malaria and other preventable diseases and probably the most
important for everyone, global development ((EFA), n.d.). If there was no education, the world
would be in the state it was back in the middle ages of diseases killing a population with a single
sneeze and most families not able to support their own children leading to a regressive world that
in the span of only 100-200 years have discovered and are able to treat diseases that used to
bewilder and kill so many individuals. The strides that the world has made to develop so much in
a quick span from when only 300 years ago the world had a mortality rate that looks almost
laughable to the modern day men and women to live for over 100 years. These strides comes into
question again of how the U.N., an organization that has a world presence to persuade nations, to
help make the goals of the education of the world one of their goals. The three priorities of the
U.N. with this goal is one, that every child born in the world is in school, two, have the best
quality of learning, and thirdly, the teaching of global challenges that the world faces to have the
new students have a sense of what needs to be done for the world.
Switzerlands track record to have their students in the classrooms is very successful as
the schools are run by local municipalities and tailor-made solutions can be made to help

students go to school close by (EDK, n.d.). Children who have different social, linguistic and
cultural backgrounds all attend the same school to help as well since it is free in every state
(canton) (EDK, n.d.). When it comes to the upper secondary level, 90% of the adolescents go to
complete their secondary education (EDK, n.d.). Education is compulsory for all children and
young people in Switzerland even those who do not have a legal residency status (Expatica,
n.d.).Each school is run by the canton they are in so each canton has its responsibilities to keep
students in school. Overall, the Swiss know how to help achieve what U.N. has put out there for
the world to uphold that every child gets the education they deserve.
Switzerland is ranked 9 out of 65 countries for high quality of education in the
OECD/PISA 2012 survey of educational standards amongst 15 year olds (Expatica, n.d.). The
State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI) is the federal body that oversees
the education in Switzerland although the cantons do have primary responsibility for their
education (Expatica n.d.). The local schools are of very high standard and are free for all the
students, and because of the high standards, only 5% go to private schools (Expatica n.d.).
Children can be taught in French, German, Italian or Romansch based on where they live, and
have classes in a second official language and English (ExpatArrivals, n.d.). Quality of the
education in Switzerland is highly regarded and checks another U.N. As for the third priority,
teaching global challenges, the Switzerland seems to have the right idea of teaching their
students English and many other languages since Switzerland is the hub of so many languages in
its small country. There is not that much about the global education, however, since the high
quality of the education, the curriculum they offer has global education. Switzerland is the
headquarters of the U.N., if the education is not to the standards of what the U.N. sets, the
country would have a lot to explain.