Global Statistics

25,000 children die each day due to poverty.

Unicef

3 billion people live on less than $2.50 a day

72 million children in the developing world were not in school in 2005

Nearly a billion people entered the 21st century unable to read a book

or sign their names.

Number of children in the world

2.2 billion

Number in poverty

1 billion (every second child)

Children out of education worldwide

121 million

1.6 billion people — a quarter of humanity

live without electricity

Less than 1% of what the world spent every year on weapons was needed to fund education for all the children around the world by the year 2000

It Never Happened

Global Education involves perspective taking

Seeing through the minds and eyes of others

“The object is to promote international understanding and

cooperation that might lead eventually to cultural and social

reconstruction” ...Pinar

“Learning about other people does not require us to relinquish our

values”

...Pinar

Critics of Global Education cite conspiratorial theories

“Global Education is part of a master plot to create a “New World Order.”

...Gary Kah

It would supposedly involve economic, political and religious

motivations

...Gary Kah

“To create one vast, conspiratorial government”

...Gary Kah

Response to critics of Global Education

“Global Education maybe vital not only for a well-rounded curriculum, but also for the very survival of the

human species”...Pinar

“Transcending traditional fears of foreign cultures and ideologies in

order to encourage global understanding is a first step an the realization of an internationalized

curriculum”...Pinar

“All Lives Have Equal Value”

...Melinda Gates