Late in 2011, a group of people launched a protest called “Occupy Wall Street,” which rocked the world’s central financial district. The aim of the protest’s organizers was to send out a strong message about the imbalance of income and wealth in the United States, where it is believe that one percent of the working population controls around 40 percent of the country’s wealth. Same is true about the wealth situation around the world. However, wealth imbalance is not the only thing that the protesters should cry about. They should also worry about the educational imbalance prevalent around the world.
Educational imbalance may seem not as great as a concern as wealth imbalance, but think of this: wealthy persons became that rich because of a certain platform from which they could launch their careers. That platform is education. Although it is true that some billionaires and millionaires were college drop-outs, it makes sense that their success could still be attributed to the fact that they learned how to do things right by acquiring the necessary education. Mark Zuckerberg, founder of the popular and money-magnet social networking site Facebook, was a college dropout himself, and that is from Harvard University. He started Facebook along with his friends while still in Harvard, and what he is now could be attributed to education being his springboard.
In terms of worldwide educational imbalance, the main factor for this is the unequal distribution of institutions that provide higher education like universities and colleges. Presently, majority of higher education institutions that made the top 400 of the best universities and colleges in the world is located in developed nations like the US, United Kingdom, Japan and most countries in Europe. No wonder that these countries enjoy development at a higher level than others in the world.
