The potential benefits of education as a consumption good and source of pleasure cannot be separated from its utility in transmitting the skills necessary to help people meet their basic needs, such as health, adequate nutrition, safe drinking water, and housing, and for raising income. This paper conceptualizes basic education and examines its ability to deliver benefits, particularly to the poor. The three learning elements--skills to communicate, skills to improve the quality of life, and skills for production--which are acquired over a lifetime, could lead to material welfare, increased productivity, and competence to earn a living from self-employment. The paper suggests that the main obstacle to the expansion of such basic education is not its economic cost but the desire of the elite to keep their privileges, which are apt to be reinforced by existing administrative and social structures. To universalize basic education by the year 2000, the choice of a particular method, technique, structure, and technology should be based on the unique configuration of each country's socioeconomic circumstances and stage of development.
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Autor
NOOR, A.
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Data do documento
1981/04/30
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TIpo de documento
Documento de trabalho sobre o pessoal
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No. do relatório
SWP450
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Nº do volume
1
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Total Volume(s)
1
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Data de divulgação
2010/07/12
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Disclosure Status
Disclosed
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Nome do documento
Education and basic human needs
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Palavras-chave
Basic Education;rates of return to education;basic education component;social and economic development;public expenditure on education;number of radio receivers;public expenditure for education;early stage of development;infant and young child;higher level of education;water supply and sanitation;preservation of natural resource;universal primary education;
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