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Nairaland Interschool debate started like a dream and now we are here, third edition of this online intellectual dream,"no be seresere ma brother". All plaudits and adoration to Jah.

Yeah it's the third edition of Nairaland Interschool debate that was alpha some years back, the third edition and the first stage of this year edition.

In an era, when the internet is synonymous with scams and fraud, it gladden my heart to see the 'future leaders' coming together and forming a bond that exists beyond the e-world in order to improve and impact the society positively...


To the Judges and coordinators, I thank you for volunteering to work on this project considering your other offline schedules, I implore you to do your best, as we can't possibly satisfy everybody, just do as your conscience is dictates.


To the contestants, you are the focal point of this projects, educating and informative arguments is what we expects from you, don't see this as a 'do or die' affairs, play by the rule and at the end of the day, we will all be happy participating in this year's edition.


Once again I welcome you all to the first stage of the third edition of Nairaland Interschool debate.

This stage is just submission of essay. And the two schools with the highest score on this thread moves to the next stage, where the debate proper will begin. The team allocated to post their essay on this thread are TEAM1.

Ladies and gentlemen, the educational aficionados, the cerebral analysts and pundits, respected Nairaland intelligentsia and commentariat, observers and watchers, I present to TEAM 1 SCHOOLS.

TEAM 1 will be putting their adroit pen into use on the topic "Education is a right not a privilege.

Is education really a privilege? Lagos state University (LASU) and Federal Polytechnic Oko will be doing justice to that, let see how far they both can snip us to their stance.


Is education really a right? FUTMINNA and AAU will also in their own way wrapped with intellectualism be able to make us pitch out tent with the affirmation that Education is really a right and not a privilege...

FUTA in.... To join Futminna and AAU in proving to us which side is the best to lean on.

Judges that will critically, analytically, logically, semantically, grade the essay are...

Hidentity
Joseph1832
HEREX G


#grabs pop corn with smoov while we all wait for this day.. 29th December 2015.. Just two days away from 2016.. Happy new year in advance audience..

Chairman
Owner of Nairaland Osewa Oluwaseun

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Fynestboi
Olawalebabs
Richiez

Chief Coordinator
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Coordinators
Aminat508
Tosyne2much
MizMyColi
Fattbabakay.

Officiating:

JUDGES
Hidentity
Joseph1832


Coordinating
Aminat508




Participants
LASU
NeonDee
IamDejman
Timidelaw
horlapelumi


FUTMINNA
TopeQs
Djhack1
hamzeiy
darex1
Timcy01


AAU
Emilord
20bc
Vicjay1


FEDERAL POLYTECHNIC OKO
Nobleking2000
Leadn



FUTA.
* awesome11
* binary007

Hi Everyone,

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Submission starts by 12pm and ends 2:pm on Tuesday




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DEBATE MODALITIES. 5marks for criteria to total 25 for each participant and a total of 50marks for each team.

1. Presentation (opening, flow, closing,
response to judges questions,
audience questions and contestants
rebuttals)
2. Logic of arguments
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understanding of the subject

Let go.....

**coughing**



DjHack1

To greet is a social manner every human is obliged do, greetings to the moderators, distinguished adjudicators, amiable Nairalanders and to my co-debaters. I (Dejman) am standing to oppose the motion “Education is a right and not a privilege”.

Education is indeed a privilege with a great proportion of the world having little or no access to it; it is the privileged few that are granted it. Only persons suffering from scotoma would believe that education is a right.
Oxford advanced Learners’ Dictionary defined Right as ‘A moral or legal entitlement to have or do something; whereas Black’s Law Dictionary has defined privilege as ‘A particular and peculiar benefit or advantage enjoyed by a person, company, or class, beyond the common advantages of other citizens.’

We shall take our own dear country, Nigeria as a case study. In Nigeria, there Rights are contained in the Chapter Two and Chapter Four of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (as amended). The rights under the Chapter Two are named ‘Fundamental objectives and Directives Principles of State policy’, while the rights in Chapter Four are named ‘Fundamental Human Rights’.

Educational right is provided in Section 18 and subsection (3) of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (as amended) says ‘Government shall as and when practicable provide (a) free, compulsory and universal primary education ; (b) free secondary education ; (c) free university education ; and (d) free adult literacy programme.

The actual truth is the reason why the educational right is not under the Fundamental Human Right in Chapter Four is because education is a privilege. Section 6 (6) of the 1999 CFRN (as amended) dictates that no court of law shall determine any matter as regard the chapter 2 of the constitution. Chapter 2 therefore cannot be enforced and it is non justiceable. In clear words, rights in the chapter 2 of the constitution are not up for discussion and you cannot go to court to enforce why you have no free education.

In a state where there’s no free education enforced, then we can really save ourselves some self delusion and stop being a pseudo intellectual being by saying education is our right. How can we tell the parent whose minimum wage is under N18, 000 to pay almost N105,000 charges for fresh students of LAUTECH and UNIOSUN which is not less than N100,000 total charges for the fresher’s. Definitely, such parent will have to go extra mile to pay
the money so as not to jeopardize the admission of the child. It is a wide broadcast when the management of Obafemi Awolowo University just woke one day and announced the astronomical increment of the fresh students from N40,000 including the acceptance fee to the tune of N90,000. So my brother, where is the right to education? UNIBEN and UNILAG are also there with their exorbitant charges. If not recently reduced, no less-privilege will afford N250, 000 LASU fee. It is no longer news that Oronsaye’s recommendation to the Federal government is that tuition fees be re-introduced in Federal universities, Polytechnics, and colleges of education. He recommended that each student should be made to pay between N450, 000 and N550, 000 naira per session.

Looking at the Child Rights Act, this has been passed to law since 2003 and was domesticated in many States of the Federation. Nigeria as a country has been unable to deal with several issues hindering the protection of right of the children, in which right to education fall into. “The fault” in the Child Right Act as observed by Barrister Lukman Ogunsetan was that; assuming a parent is sent to prison for violating the child Right Act, which does not enforce a child Right but merely punishes the parent. The child remain uneducated, the “right” remain unenforced.

Have you ever wondered why this saying “If you think Education is cheap then go try Ignorance, it is simply because Education is a privilege, an opportunity many wish they had and which in turn many are striving to get. H. L. Mencken once said; “What men value in this world is not rights but privileges” and until we let that sink in our hearts and see the more of privileges than rights in education then we will continue to struggle in our quest for global developments through education. Like Aristotle has said “The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet” such roots are not freely given as rights, they are privileges.



Never take a thing for granted because most times we fail to realize the value of what we have until we lose them, therefore, it is pernicious to have the self delusion that Education is your right. The bitter and simple truth remains; Education is a privilege, not a right, and we are fortunate to live in a democracy. Earth as an ecosystem stands out in the all of the universe. There's no place that we know about that can support life as we know it, not even our sister planet, Mars, where we might set up housekeeping someday, but at great effort and trouble we have to recreate the things we take for granted here, EDUCATION is one of them.


References
FROM RIGHT TO PRIVILEGE: THE STORY OF EDUCATION IN NIGERIA
CHILD EDUCATION IN NIGERIA: A RIGHT OR PRIVILEGE. BY YUSUFF OLA-GOLD, MUTALUB


Oxford Dictionary Advanced Learners Edition
Black’s Law Dictionary
1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria as amended
Read more at http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/take_for_granted.html#guwXagbhQFa2K5PK.99

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Judges on standby?

LASU
NeonDee
IamDejman
Timidelaw
horlapelumi


FEDERAL POLYTECHNIC OKO
Nobleking2000
Leadn

FUTA
Binary007
awesome11

AAU
Emilord
20bc
Vicjay1

FUTMINNA
TopeQs
Djhack1
hamzeiy
darex1
Timcy01





Ready......?


You will be unveiling your essay in the next 10mims.




I wouldn't want painful story, or somewhat excuse that touch, as you have just one hour from the given time to either edit your booked space or post a new one..

IamDejman:
Book space?

check your mail bro........its urgent. thanks

Will be excusing myself for the coordinator of today's essay submission.




Aminat508

Fynestboi:
LASU
NeonDee
IamDejman
Timidelaw
horlapelumi


FEDERAL POLYTECHNIC OKO
Nobleking2000
Leadn

FUTA
Binary007
awesome11

AAU
Emilord
20bc
Vicjay1

FUTMINNA
TopeQs
Djhack1
hamzeiy
darex1
Timcy01





Ready......?


You will be unveiling your essay in the next 10mims.




I wouldn't want painful story, or somewhat excuse that touch, as you have just one hour from the given time to either edit your booked space or post a new one..

booked space?

horlapelumi:


booked space?

Those that reserved a spot. Up there... Never mind though.

NAIRALAND INTERSCHOOL DEBATE COMPETITION
EDITION: THIRD EDITION
SCHOOL: THE FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY,
AKURE.
DEBATE TOPIC: EDUCATION IS A RIGHT, NOT A
PRIVILEGE.
STANCE: MOTION SUPPORT
DATE: 29th of DECEMBER, 2015.


Iconic American broadcast journalist, Walter Leland
Cronkite Jr, is accredited with one saying I consider to be
apt to the subject of discuss. In one of the hours of his
crest ingenuity, he said:
"Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap
compared to that of an ignorant nation"

Good Afternoon,
The founder of this impactful online platform,
The organisers and think tank behind this annual
intellectual battle,
Honourable juries/adjudicators
Respected moderators,
All competing teams in the debate,
All users of this forum and observers; and
Great FUTARIANS!!!!


I consider it material to state that I had never thought my
topic of discuss: "Education is a right; and not a privilege"
a debatable one by any enlightened mind. However, I am
hopeful that the proposition of a concise definition and
subsequent understanding of essential key elements in the
topic- Education, Privilege and Right, will help in the
process of persuading anyone who is not too given to
pontification to take a reevaluation on his/her antagonistic
stance.


Author Mark Smith provides us with an encompassing
definition of the term "Education", which he proffered as:
"the act or process of imparting or acquiring general
knowledge, enlightenment of the mind, developing the
powers of reasoning and judgement, and generally of
preparing oneself or others intellectually for mature life, in
the belief that all should have a chance to share in life."
However, search engine giants, Wikipedia defines Rights
as "legal, social, ethical, or fundamental normative rules
about what is allowed of people or owed to people,
according to some legal system, social convention or
ethical theory".On the other hand, A "Privilege", as
interpreted by the third edition of the MacMillan English
Dictionary, is " a special benefit that is available only to a
particular person of group of people".


Perhaps, it is very logical to ask my opponents a very
simple question on their stance. Going by the above
interpretation of the term "Privilege", to which particular
group of people do you think education should be only
available to?

While I await your response to that question, I would like
you to put these facts into consideration while providing us with an expected well-crafted reply.


Firstly, Education has a very important role to play in the
promotion and protection of human rights. Unarguably, it
is uncontroversial to say Education is a basic weapon in
enforcing our many civil rights. It makes us aware of our
civil, political, social, economic and cultural rights. Without
proper education, one can not be introduced with these
philosophic basic rights and obligations. Why then, should
such an important tool in our sojourn through planet earth
be seen as a privilege? Is it not hypocritical to provide one
with fundamental human rights- such as the right to life,
right of freedom of association, right to dignity of human
person, right of fair hearing, right to freedom of expressions et al, without empowering the same people
with the primary enablement(Education) to enforce those
rights? It is not surprising then, that the concept of
expanding human rights through education is now
popularly present and travelled and that education itself is
now increasingly considered as a third generation human
right.


Furthermore, I strongly believe no sane being nurses the
notion that the recent inclusion of education as one of the
quality of life indicators by Eurostat and UNESCO is a
reckless decision. Education, as the basis of human
civilization, has a major impact on the quality of life of
individuals. It fosters our growth into well-rounded adults,
ready and well-equipped enough to contribute our
significant quota to the world we find ourselves. Realities
are that a lack of skills and competencies( typically
delivered by education: formal or informal) limits the
occupational prospects and economic prosperity chances,
increases the risk of social exclusion, reduces the twin evil
of poverty and disease and is likely to hinder a full
participation in civic and economic affairs. This fact is
well established by Eurostat in a recent research carried
out by the institution. The report establishes education as
a factor that enhances people's understanding of the
world they live in, and hence their perception of their ability
to influence it. Why then should a child be brought to this
world if the primary device needed for a relatively easier
chance of survival won't be a right, but a privilege?


In furtherance to justifying my stance, Amitabh Shukla of
the Global Institute of Management and Technology, India
and UNESCO, among many other statistical institutes have
sponsored or conducted empirical studies which establish
that there is certainly a high degree correlation between
level of education of a populace and the economic growth
of such people. It is really no shock then, that many
countries have placed greater emphasis on developing an
education system that can produce workers able to
function in new industries, such as those in the fields of
technology and science and as many nations have this
initiated and sustain movements to improve the basic
education of the populace, with a growing belief that all
people have the right to a proper one. Of course, it is
common knowledge that China's giant strides on the
world economic ladder were built on the proper education
of her people. Again, should people be deprived of their
right to more positively impact their national economy
because the requirement to achieve that has not been
given to them on the alter of it being a "privilege" only
selected few should enjoy?


In addition, one can never undermine the role of education
in creating a society free of baseless superstitions.
Arguably, the greatest service of education to a man is the
help it renders him in making him have the tendency of
keeping his own mind. It is almost impossible to fool a
properly educated person as it would take reasoning and
sound logic to put him in the trap. An educated person will
listen to all and do what suits him best. Enlightenment of
one's mind(education) keeps us from being trapped in
advisories and that explains the fast paced demise of
superstitious beliefs,as more and more men have decided,
through education, to be in possession of their own minds
and develop great reluctance to losing it to crude societal,
traditional and cultural beliefs based on sub-human
intelligence. Medieval philosophy, as well as many other
belief systems, preaches the three-dimensional existence
of a man- spirit, body and mind. Then, why should a two-
dimensional being be begotten since a man without
education is not exactly in possession of his mind?


Undoubtedly, One can keep on extolling the merits of
education to affirm it as everyone's right, ranging from
imparting innate ability to work across life genres and
culture, providing a longer, disease free life to the younger
generation to instilling healthier values and policies that
help make the world more peaceful.


In conclusion, it is my belief that everyone who is pacific
and possesses even a little degree of humaneness is
convinced that at tool which presents to us with the
armory for our ideal survival and living can not be a
privilege but a right as correctly advanced by well meaning
human right bodies.




REFERENCES
* MacMillan English Dictionary, Third Edition.

* http://infed.org/mobi/what-is-education-a-definition-
and-discussion/

* http://abusidiqu.com/the-right-to-privilege-the-story-of-
education-in-nigeria/

* https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rights

Good day Mr. Chairman, erudite judges, the coordinators, the moderators, accurate time
keeper, distinguished audience.

my name is TopeQs, representing Futminna. I'm here to argue on education as a right against it being a privilege.



let me start by saying the right to education is guaranteed legally for all without any discrimination
the state have the obligation to protect, respect and fulfil the right to education, there are ways to hold the state accountable for violations or deprivations of the right to education.


Education is not a privilege of the rich and well-to-do; it is the inalienable right of every child. The state must discharge its responsibility as guarantor and regulator of education as a fundamental human entitlement and as a public cause. The provision of basic education, free of cost, is not only a core obligation of states but also a moral imperative.

then......

What is a right?

It is any claim, title, etc, that is morally just or legally granted as allowable or due to a person,

What is privilege?

Privilege is a special right, advantage, or immunity granted or available only to a particular person or group.

Then what is education?

The 1960
UNESCO Convention against Discrimination in Education defines education in Article 1(2) as: "all types and levels of education, (including) access to education, the standard and quality of education, and the conditions under which it is given."
In a wider sense education may describe "all activities by which a human group transmits to its descendants a body of knowledge and skills and a moral code which enable the group to subsist". In this sense education refers to the transmission to a subsequent generation of those skills needed to perform tasks of daily living, and further passing on the social, cultural, spiritual and philosophical values of the particular community. The wider meaning of education has been recognised in Article 1(a) of UNESCO 's 1974
Recommendation concerning Education for International Understanding, Co-operation and Peace and Education relating to Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms.
This article state as quoted "the entire process of social life by means of which individuals and social groups learn to develop consciously within, and for the benefit of, the national and international communities, the whole of their personal capabilities, attitudes, aptitudes and knowledge."


Education is also the path to development. It creates choices and opportunities for people in terms of access to employment, reduces the twin burdens of poverty and disease, and empowers people. For nations as a whole, education produces a more skilled and competitive workforce that can attract better quality foreign investment, thus opening the doors to economic and social prosperity for society as a whole.

If education was a privilege most nations would be badly governed, cos few people would be learned thus citizens won't know how things are been run.

Moreover, If education wasn't a right, the world today will be full of illiteracy........that's why the government makes it a task for themselves to make sure people are very well educated, even to the very less privileged..............

Education is a right to everyone, as a matter of fact everyone is educated, education isn't only books, it's also a skill learnt, according to wikitionary,
Education is the process or art of imparting knowledge, skill and judgment.
A good teacher is essential for a good education.
Education is also facts, skills and ideas that have been learned, either formally or informally.

Furthermore, If education was a privilege then only few people will be educated, which means the world will have to follow what they are been told or shown because most people won't know how to challenge the right and wrong of the constitution or whatever law the state is been run. We have to think about the impact education has made through it been a right and think of how education as a privilege would be against it been a right.

Education is a right, not a privilege. It is important for readers to understand that access to education is a basic human right, enshrined in the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, a multilateral treaty adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 16 December, 1966 and in force since 1976. The right to free education is also guaranteed by most countries’ legal and constitutional frameworks.

In conclusion, access to education is not a privilege, it’s a right. Educating children no matter where they are is one of the biggest steps we can take toward ending extreme poverty. To make this happen, we work together with a diverse group of governments, civil society/non-governmental organizations, international organizations, private sector, and teachers.

Education is fundamental to the development of human potential and to full participation in a democratic society. That's why it's recognised as a human right. Everyone has the right to education, regardless of where you live, what your race is or whether or not you have a disability.

We need to acknowledge the fact that education is also fundamental to the full enjoyment of most other human rights: most clearly the right to work but also the right to health. And to the exercise of social responsibilities including respect for human rights.


Reference....
https://en.m.wiktionary.org

globalpartnership.org

http://gijn.org

https://www​.humanrights.gov.au



https://wikipedia.org

Aminat508:
TopeQs nice one how about your mate?

he should be here anytime from now....I've beeped him on phone...



please pardon my references......it wasn't easy getting them, my write-up was done when I had no idea we'll reference them......

TopeQs:


he should be here anytime from now....I've beeped him on phone...



please pardon my references......it wasn't easy getting them, my write-up was done when I had no idea we'll reference them......

ok.

You guys should be time conscious.

TopeQs:


he should be here anytime from now....I've beeped him on phone...



please pardon my references......it wasn't easy getting them, my write-up was done when I had no idea we'll reference them......

My teammate is struggling to get an internet access. He should be here anytime from now.

Debate, the art of reasonable discussion of controversial topics, will help us all become morally aware and will enhance our ability to think critically. We take the perspective of others, and make thoughtful moral decisions for ourselves. We may often disagree—but we learn to do so respectfully and civilly.. Good day moderators, distinguish adjudicators, co debaters and amiable Nairalanders. I am Eduntee representing the prestigious Lagos State University and am here to vehemently oppose the notion which says that “Education is a right not a privilege.
I shall be addressing this house by giving a definition of Education, Right and Privilege after which I would be supporting my claims that Education is a privilege and not a right as well as opposing the opponents claim on different grounds.
What is a right? A right has been defined as that which is proper under the law, morality or ethics. Hence they are inherent and cannot be taken away from a person. However the problem associated thereto Right is that they are usually either enforceable or un-enforceable and also subjected to jurisdictional issue because what is attainable as a right in a particular place might not necessarily be a right elsewhere while a privilege are those special legal right, exemption or immunity granted to a person or group of person. A privilege grants someone the legal freedom to do and not to do a given Act. Education simply put, is the process of teaching, training, learning especially in school or college to improve knowledge and develop skills.
In line with the above it is therefore safe to define Educational privilege to mean those benefit, exemption or immunity granted to a person or class of persons who has showed interest in the process of learning. This brings me back to the notion which warrants me to ask; is education a right or has education ever been a right? In other to answer the questions above, I will plead to use Nigeria as a case study, so let’s take a trip back to the history of Education in Nigeria.
The entrance of the Europeans into Nigeria brought along European western Education in the 1840s. In the western part of the country western education was encouraged by the Missionaries. The Northern part of Nigeria, majorly populated by Muslims, western education was prohibited giving way to Islamic school that focused primarily on Islamic education. Prior to Nigeria’s Independence, only two Established Post Secondary Institutions were available, Yaba Higher College (Now Yaba College of Technology founded in 1934) and the University of Ibadan, founded in 1948. Post Independence brought about the major development of education in Nigeria, with increase in the number of primary, secondary schools, teachers college and Polytechnics and Universities. Flowing from this, it is a notorious fact that Education in Nigeria is as a result of the adventures of the colonial masters to our part of the world and as such Education is, was and is still a privilege of such colonial visit to Africa. Globally Education is a privilege that accompanied civilization and that is why the very yardstick for measuring civilization in any part of the world is Education, then are we going to say; those part of the world that lacks Education have been deprived of their rights? Emphatically No they are yet to get such opportunities
More so it is painful, odd and self deceptive if at this stage of increasing tuition fee, cost of reading and instructional materials someone will still stand to say “Education is a right”. I beg to ask my fellow talk mate this question why do still have to pay school fees when this so called education is your Right. It makes me wonder why rights need be paid for. In the words of George Carlin; Rights aren’t rights if someone can take them away, as a matter of fact they are only privileges. As much as we have rights, they are inherent acquisitions of which enjoyments cannot be exhausted. All over the world, educational structures have been put in place in varying size and qualities but yet one thing makes them unique and that is the fact that whatever services you get from the school is a product of your tuition fees. The moment you stop paying, your rights to those benefits are withdrawn (Now, are you thinking what I am thinking?) and then do we call that a right? Right are never to be paid for.
Even though my colleagues on the other side might want to argue that there are certain institutions of learning that have been put in place by government to ensure the enforcement of this supposed right but if we are to call a spade a spade then my colleagues would agree with me that no such as free education exists, it’s just a form of education in a subsidized rate. This I found out after random interactions with both current and past students of these institutions.
Furthermore, Quid sit jus, et in quo consistit injuria, legis est definire. What constitutes right, and what injury, it is the business of the law to define. The implication of this is such that, if education is a right its a claim arising from ignorance because if this government takes away this right as calmed, they are as a matter of fact non-justifiable because section 6(6c) oust the jurisdiction of court from sitting on the issues that fall under chapter 2 of the constitution and matters in this section are not justifiable as the court in the case of Okogie v A.G Lagos State held. Now it is crystal clear that the education provided for are simply the special privilege that is enjoyed by student who has shown interest in it. The implication of this is that, until such laws are enacted to make Educational rights enforceable then education remains a privilege and never a right. And as we all know, the law gives a right and where the law gives a right, its gives a remedy to recover (L’ou le ley done chose, la ceo done remedie a vener a ceo) this has been affirmed by the Supreme court in the case of Aoko v Fagbemi.
Awhile back I watched a TV program that compared high school students in the United States to high school students in India.. While many American high school students sleep in, Indian high school students attend four-hour-long mathematics tutoring sessions starting at 7:30 am. On what was supposed to be a typical Saturday morning, I watched as a high school boy got up late and hung out, while a young Indian girl sat in a study group to prepare her for advanced mathematics. If she doesn’t pass the test, she wouldn’t be able to move the next level. My impression was that her future is hung in balance. At least that was how her face looked. The American kid was laughing and sitting in his room. That is exactly what happens when Education is seen as a right rather than a privilege. It’s become prone to abuses because the purpose is unknown just like the American kid who saw education as his right‘ If It is my right then I can so do whatever I like with it, if only’ such kids know how many kids are outside their wanting such opportunity. Until Education is seen as a privilege then it will remain a blunt tool that can never change a country not to talk of the world as Nelson Mandela of South Africa has proposed.
Access to education is not a privilege, it’s a right. And yet, 61 million children are not in school, Are these ones without such rights? A Privilege is when a child goes to school, sit in a classroom among peers of the same age and have someone instruct them. Do you know why? Many are out there seeking the opportunities to do so. I would have in my own discretion give a standing ovation to my opponent if they had argued that “EDUCATION IS RIGHT” and not “EDUCATION IS A RIGHT



reference
Black law dictionary 9th edition
Oxford advance learner dictionary
www.the law dictionary,org
www.collegetermpappers.com/viewpaper/1303959893
http://chalcedon.edu/research/articles/learning-is-a-privillege-not a right.
www.researchassistance.com/essays/higher-education-is–a-privillege.
www.studentloansherap.com/higher-education-privilege.
1999 constitution of the federal republic of nigeria as amended.

NAIRALAND INTERSCHOOL DEBATE COMPETITION.
THIRD EDITION
School: THE FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, AKURE.
TOPIC: EDUCATION IS A RIGHT, NOT A PRIVILEDGE.
POSITION: SUPPORTING
DATE: TUESDAY, DECEMBER 29, 2015


Before I begin, I’d take a moment to thank my opponent, whosoever he/she should be, I wish you all the best of luck.

With that said, my position on this topic is simple, Education should be mandatory, a legal right not a privilege, or a special opportunity. An hint into the basic concept on education would be very paramount in the cause of this debate, education is an enlightening experience, a mind sharpener, it is a weapon whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and to whom it is aimed, trust me, it could be that powerful. Before I proceed any further, I would love to clarify a general misconception between literacy and education.

Literacy is simply the ability to read and write.
Education is the ability to reason, to use your ability to read and write to your benefit and to be able to gain spectrum of knowledge by surging deeper into the literate knowledge imparted to you. It is just so ethically correct, just and honourable to a legal entitlement to a free and compulsory access to education, show me a nation with a struggling and plummeting economy and I will gladly point out its educational shortcoming, I would love to bullet my points so as to buttress my argument.


Education is the key to fight ignorance.
‘Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored, hence, nothing in this world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity’. Ignorance is pre-defined, it is a state of being totally or partially uninformed[lack of knowledge], and as the general saying goes, right information is absolute power, we can therefore infer that an ignorant mind is powerless with zero psychological prowess, on a much broader view, how do a clan, a community, a town, a city, a state, in fact! How does a nation develop with citizen with far lesser knowledge relative to the exposure and brain capability? It could therefore be said that proper education is unnegotiable to national development and economic advancement, tune your mind a bit and imagine that we are still so ignorant as to believe a plain mirror is a reflection of a supreme being on us rather than the simple scientific phenomenon of light, I’m so sure you have stretched your mind to its limit, there you are, on the path to conceding that as many persons as possible should be scooped out of the shallow river of ignorance, and what better way to inform people other than education?


Education is the key to securing the future.
‘To correctly predict the future, you design it ‘
As a popular singer Whitney Houston sang ‘I believe the children are our future, teach them well and let the lead the way’ , I would love to integrate the kids into our discussion, younger children, mostly coming from broken homes, do not understand the importance of an education, with parents non-challant altitude, they often weight the decision of quitting school as a very tender age only to really discover the truth in the nearest future, to prevent this, a fundamental right should be available to curb and prevent occurrence of such painful mistake, a detailed educational guideline should be put in place so this innocent children wouldn’t just be a victim of a circumstance they could barely help, or would you think otherwise? I fully doubt that. while I await you replies to this questions, come to think of it.

Education is freedom.
Next in importance to freedom and justice is proper education without which neither freedom, nor justice can be maintained, making education a privilege will only end up fuelling gender discrimination as only masculine entities would be believed to deserve formal education as in ages past, how then are we supposed to justify a slide back into an obliterated practice? Perhaps, those philosophies are kept till recent times, great minds like Dr. Mrs. Allison Makueke, Dr(mrs) Okonwo iweala, Mrs. Folorunsho Alakija, would have been left unharnessed and untapped, I seriously don’t think sentiment as to who receives education is worth considering.

On a lighter note, it would be very ridiculous and absurd to consider access to education as a special privilege.


References.
Concise oxford English dictionary(11th edition)
www.vanguardngr.com/page/7/?s=privilege+education
www.debate.org/debates

I think that the time is past 1. I dissent with any form of relaxing rules to pave way for breach, especially when such is not convincing.

Time up..



Please.