Mandito Felizardo Magalua

Human Rights

(Degree in Portuguese Language Teaching)

Rovuma University
Niassa Extension
2022
Mandito Felizardo Magalua

Human Rights

Work from the Transversal Themes

courses, for evaluative purposes.
Mentored by Msc, Matias Quenane.

Rovuma University
Niassa Extension
2022
The Importance of Education Education is an important issue in one’s life. It is the key to success in
the future and to have many opportunities in our life. Education has many advantages for people.
For instance, it illuminates a person’s mind and thinking. It helps students to plan for work or pursue
a higher education while graduating from university. Having education in an area helps people think,
feel, and behave in a way that contributes to their success, and improves not only their personal
satisfaction but also their community. In addition, education develops human personality, thoughts,
dealing with others and prepares people for life experiences. It makes people have a special status
in their own society and everywhere they live in. I believe that everyone is entitled to have education
‘’from cradle to grave’’. There are various benefits of having education such as having a good
career, having a good status in society, and having self-confidence. First of all, education gives us
the chance of having a good career in our life. We can have plenty of chances to work at any
workplace we wish. In other words, opportunities for a better employment can be more and easy.
The highly educated we are the better chance we get. Moreover, education polishes our mind,
reinforces our thoughts, and strengthens our character and behaviors toward others. It equips us
with information in various fields in general and our specialization in particular; especially what we
need to master in our job career. Therefore, without education we may not survive properly nor have
a decent profession. Furthermore, education grants us a good status in society. As educated people,
we are considered as a valuable source of knowledge for our society. Having education helps us
teach others morals, manners and ethics in our society. For this reason, people deal with us in a
considerable and special way for being productive and resourceful. In addition, education makes us
a role model in society when our people need us to guide them to the right way or when they want to
take a decision. Thus, it is an honor for us to serve our community and contribute towards its
advancement. In fact, being educated is an advantage to help our people and build a good society.
Besides, it is very well-known that having self-confidence is always generated from education. It is a
great blessing for us to have self-confidence which leads to many advantages and success in life.
For example, it helps us manage specific tasks, tackle life’s challenges and maintain positive stands.
Additionally, having self-confidence is typically based on proper education; paving the path for us to
success. Accordingly, self-confidence makes us aware of how well we perform a task or a range of
actions. In short, being educated is undoubtedly being self-confident and successful in life. All in all,
education is the process of acquiring knowledge and information that lead to a successful future. As
discussed above, there are a lot of positive traits of having education; such as having a good career,
having a good status in society, and having self-confidence. Education makes us view obstacles as
challenges to overcome with no fear; facing new things. It is the main factor behind successful
people and the merit of developed countries. Therefore, education is deemed a real success behind
any future success.

The Importance of EducationEducation is an important issue in one’s life. It is the key to success in the
future, and tohave many opportunities in our life. Education has many advantages for people. For
instance, itilluminates a person's mind and thinking. It helps students to plan for work, or pursue
highereducation by graduating from university. Having education in an area helps people think,
feel,and behave in a way that contributes to their success, and improves not only their
personalsatisfaction but also their community. In addition, education develops human
personality,thoughts, and social skills. It also prepares people for life experiences. It makes people have
aspecial status in their own society and everywhere they live. I believe that everyone is entitled tohave
education ‘’from cradle to grave’’. There are various benefits of having education, such ashaving a good
career, having a good status in society, and having self-confidence.First of all, education paves the way
for us to have a good career. We can have plenty ofchances to work at any workplace we wish. It
enhances the opportunities for a better and easieremployment. The highly educated we are the better
life chances we get. Moreover, educationpolishes our mind, reinforces our thoughts, and strengthens
our character and behaviors towardothers. It equips us with information in various fields in general
and in our specialization inparticular, especially what we need to master in our job career. Therefore,
without education wemay not survive properly, nor have a decent profession.Furthermore, education
grants us a good status in society. As educated people, we areconsidered as a valuable source of
knowledge for our society. Having education helps us teachothers necessary morals, good manners and
wise ethics. For this reason, people deal with us ina considerable and special way for being
productive and resourceful. In addition, educationmakes us a role model in society, when our
people need us to guide them to the right way andwise decisions. Thus, it is an honor for us to serve
our community and contribute towards itsadvancement. In fact, being educated is an advantage to
help our people and build a goodsociety.Besides, it is very well-known that having self-
confidence is always generated fromeducation. It is a great blessing for us to have self-confidence,
which leads to many advantagesand success in life. For example, it helps us manage specific tasks, tackle
life’s challenges andmaintain positive stands. Additionally, having self-confidence is typically
based on propereducation; paving the path for us to success. Accordingly, self-confidence makes us
aware ofhow well we perform a task or a range of actions. In short, being educated is undoubtedly
beingself-confident and successful in life.All in all, education is the process of acquiring knowledge and
information that leads to asuccessful future. As discussed above, there are a lot of positive traits of
having education, suchas having a good career, having a good status in society and having self-
confidence. Educationmakes us view obstacles as challenges to overcome with no fear; facing new
things. It is themain factor behind successful people and the merit of developed countries.
Therefore,education is deemed a real success behind any future success.

Types of Education
Education also means helping people to learn how to do things and encouraging them
to think about what they learn.

It is also important for educators to teach ways to find and use information. Through
education, the knowledge of society, country, and of the world is passed on from
generation to generation.

In democracies, through education, children and adults are supposed to learn how to be
active and effective citizens.

More specific, education helps and guide individuals to transform from one class to
another. Empowered individuals, societies, countries by education are taking an edge
over individuals stand on the bottom pyramid of growth.

Types of Education
Education goes beyond what takes places within the four walls of the classroom. A child
gets the education from his experiences outside the school as well as from those within
on the basis of these factors. There are three main types of education, namely,
Formal, Informal and Non-formal. Each of these types is discussed below.
 Formal Education
Formal education or formal learning usually takes place in the premises of the
school, where a person may learn basic, academic, or trade skills. Small children often
attend a nursery or kindergarten but often formal education begins in elementary school
and continues with secondary school.

Post-secondary education (or higher education) is usually at a college or university

which may grant an academic degree. It is associated with a specific or stage and is
provided under a certain set of rules and regulations. 

The formal education is given by specially qualified teachers they are supposed to be
efficient in the art of instruction. It also observes strict discipline. The student and the
teacher both are aware of the facts and engage themselves in the process of education.

Examples of Formal Education

 Learning in a classroom
 School grading/certification, college,  and university degrees
 Planned education of different subjects having a proper syllabus acquired by
attending the institution.

Characteristics of formal education

 Formal education is structured hierarchically.
 It is planned and deliberate.
 Scheduled fees are paid regularly.
 It has a chronological grading system.
 It has a syllabus and subject-oriented. The syllabus has to be covered within a
specific time period.
 The child is taught by the teachers

Advantages of Formal education:

 An organized educational model and up to date course contents.
 Students acquire knowledge from trained and professional teachers.
 Structured and systematic learning process.
 Intermediate and final assessments are ensured to advance students to the next
learning phase.
 Institutions are managerially and physically organized.
 Leads to a formally recognized certificate.
 Easy access to jobs.

Disadvantages of Formal education:            

 Sometimes, brilliant students are bored due to the long wait for the expiry of the
academic session to promote to the next stage
 Chance of bad habits’ adoption may be alarming due to the presence of both
good and bad students in the classroom
 Wastage of time as some lazy students may fail to learn properly in spite of
motivation by the professional trainers.
 Some unprofessional and non-standard education system may cause the
wastage of time and money of the students which leads to the disappointment from
formal education and argue them to go for non-formal education.
 Costly and rigid education as compare to other forms of learning

Informal Education
Informal education may be a parent teaching a child how to prepare a meal or ride a
bicycle.

People can also get an informal education by reading many books from a library or
educational websites.

Informal education is when you are not studying in a school and do not use any
particular learning method. In this type of education, conscious efforts are not involved.
It is neither pre-planned nor deliberate. It may be learned at some marketplace, hotel or
at home.

Unlike formal education, informal education is not imparted by an institution such as

school or college. Informal education is not given according to any fixed timetable.
There is no set curriculum required. Informal education consists of experiences and
actually living in the family or community.

Examples of Informal Education

 Teaching the child some basics such as numeric characters.
 Someone learning his/her mother tongue
 A spontaneous type of learning, “if a person standing in a bank learns
about opening and maintaining the account at the bank from someone.”

Characteristics of Informal Education

 It is independent of boundary walls.
 It has no definite syllabus.
 It is not pre-planned and has no timetable.
 No fees are required as we get informal education through daily experience and
by learning new things.
 It is a lifelong process in a natural way.
 The certificates/degrees are not involved and one has no stress for learning the
new things.
 You can get from any source such as media, life experiences, friends, family etc.

Advantages of Informal Education

 More naturally learning process as you can learn at anywhere and at any time
from your daily experience.
 It involves activities like individual and personal research on a topic of interest for
themselves by utilizing books, libraries, social media, internet or getting assistance from
informal trainers.
 Utilizes a variety of techniques.
 No specific time span.
 Less costly and time-efficient learning process.
 No need to hire experts as most of the professionals may be willing to share their
precious knowledge with students/public through social media and the internet.
 Learners can be picked up the requisite information from books, TV, radio or
conversations with their friends/family members.

Disadvantages of Informal Education     

 Information acquired from the internet, social media, TV, radio or conversations
with friends/family members may lead to the disinformation.
 Utilized techniques may not be appropriate.
 No proper schedule/time span.
 Unpredictable results which simply the wastage of time.
 Lack of confidence in the learner.
 Absence of discipline, attitude and good habits.

Read also: Importance of education: comprehensive article

Non-formal Education
Non-formal education includes adult basic education, adult literacy education or
school equivalency preparation.

In nonformal education, someone (who is not in school) can learn literacy, other basic
skills or job skills.

Home education, individualized instruction (such as programmed learning), distance

learning and computer-assisted instruction are other possibilities. 

Non-formal education is imparted consciously and deliberately and systematically

implemented. It should be organized for a homogeneous group. Non-formal, education
should be programmed to serve the needs of the identified group. This will necessitate
flexibility in the design of the curriculum and the scheme of evaluation.

Examples of Non-formal Education

 Boy Scouts and Girls Guides develop some sports program such as swimming
comes under nonformal education.
 Fitness programs.
 Community-based adult education courses.
 Free courses for adult education developed by some organization.

Characteristics of Non-formal Education

 The nonformal education is planned and takes place apart from the school
system.
 The timetable and syllabus can be adjustable.
 Unlike theoretical formal education, it is practical and vocational education.
 Nonformal education has no age limit.
 Fees or certificates may or may not be necessary.
 It may be full time or part-time learning and one can earn and learn together.
 It involves learning of professional skills.

Advantages of Non-formal Education

 Practiced and vocational training.
 Naturally growing minds that do not wait for the system to amend.
 Literacy with skillfulness growth in which self-learning is appreciated.
 Flexibility in age, curriculum and time.
 Open-ended educational system in which both the public and private sector are
involved in the process.
 No need to conduct regular exams.
 Diploma, certificates, and award are not essential to be awarded.

Disadvantages of Non-formal Education

 Attendance of participants is unsteady.
 Sometimes, it’s just wastage of time as there is no need to conduct the exam on
regular basis and no degree/diploma is awarded at the end of the training session.
 Basic reading and writing skills are crucial to learn.
 No professional and trained teachers.
 Students may not enjoy full confidence as the regular students enjoy.
 Some institutes provide fake certification through online courses just for the sake
of earning.
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