教育的本质是为了帮助欠发达国家努力赶上西方世界。千年发展目标是一组旨在帮助世界上最贫穷者的目标，它包括八个目标，这些目标可以通过教育来实现。这些目标是在2000年之后制定的，并在联合国千年首脑会议之后作为2015的目标确立起来。不是所有的目标都是在2015完成的，但是取得了很大的进展。教育对某些目标产生了极端影响，如果正确使用，将有助于解决世界最贫困地区的问题。我的目标是解释这些问题，以及如何利用教育来解决这些问题。
第一个目标是消除极端贫穷和饥饿。这也包括几个子组，但我会更全面地解释。教育促进和激发创业精神，有助于产生积极的外部因素，如工作、贷款、企业等。联合国教育、科学及文化组织（教科文组织）报告说，每增加一年的教育可以使个人的工资每年提高10%。这表明，利用教育来传授创造复杂市场所需的技能，并将继续帮助欠发达国家。
Education is essential in helping the lower developed countries strive [LL2]to catch up with the Western World. The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), a set of goals aimed at helping the world’s poorest, consists of eight goals that can be accomplished with the use of education. These goals were developed in 2000 and established after the Millennium Summit of the United Nations as a target for 2015. Not all of the goals were accomplished by 2015, but there has been a great amount of progress achieved. Education has had an extreme impact on some of these goals, and if it is used correctly will help to solve the problems of the world’s poorest places. My goal is to explain these issues and how they can be resolved with the use of education.
The first goal is to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger. This consists of a few sub-groups as well, but I will be more general with my explanation. Education promotes and inspires entrepreneurship, which helps to generate positive externalities like work, loans, businesses, ect. The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) report that each additional year of schooling can increase an individual’s wages by 10% per year. This suggests after ten years an individual could be making one hundred times the amount they were a decade ago[LL3]! The use of education to teach the skills necessary to create complex markets has and will continue to help the less developed countries.
The second goal, achieve universal primary education, obviously relates directly to education. This goal means children should go to school young and complete an appropriate amount of education, similar to what we do in the U.S. The UESCO reports, “Education provides knowledge and skills, encourages new behavior and increases individual and collective empowerment, education is at the center of social and economic development.” There are still over 50 million children out of school, but significant progress has been accomplished since 2000 when the number was much higher. Another important factor is reaching equity in education because over half of the 50 plus million children out of school are girls. Educating the children can help these future generations from making poor choices later in life, and it can serve as a gateway to better decision-making. Several factors, however, hinder the world from achieving this goal. Cultural differences inhibit many women from continuing education because of lower marriage ages. Natural disasters also play a large part in preventing many places from providing education. It is critically important to solve this goal and help the poor “get on their feet.”
The third goal is to promote gender equality and empower women. Equal schooling for boys and girls is probably the most effective policy for achieving all of the MDGs. The UNESCO reports, “Evidence shows a strong correlation between educating women and girls and an increase in women’searnings, improved child and family health and nutrition, an increase in school enrolment, protection against HIV infection, higher maternal and child life expectancy, reduced fertility rates and delayed marriage.” Increasing women’s earning can help to eliminate poverty. Improved health will help to prevent diseases, which is another MDG. Basically all the results from equal education of girls and boys directly impacts at least one aspect of every MDG.
Goal four of the MDGs is to reduce child mortality. Research shows in numerous studies that education, specifically of women, significantly improves family health, nutrition, and reduces the number of children who die befor
