Achieving Universal Primary Education Saint Madeleine...

Cameron Fearn Ms. Tenney Global Issues 10 December 2015 Achieving Universal Primary Education Saint Madeleine Sophie Barat, foundress of the Society of the Sacred Heart, once said, â€Å"With the pupils... show them that you want to help them acquire a solid and pious education, enhanced by learning, and thus make them happy† (Barat). Barat made it evident that there is a huge impact as a result of education. This impact can be personal in the way that Barat described it as education making people happy to an impact on a society as a whole. It is commonly known that an education allows for a person to improve their life, their social class, and their job. Education also allows for societies to improve and advance. Education and societal advancements are directly related. It is obvious, especially to people who have benefitted from schooling, that an education is absolutely fundamental to a person’s and a society’s successes. Across the world, there are people who may have access to a proper education, but they do not have the proper supplies and tools that they need to benefit from that education. While there have been great strides in reforming education and the lack thereof across the world, much more needs to be done, whether it be in Sub-Saharan Africa or St. Louis, MO, to fully achieve universal primary education. Globally, the United Nations and its partner countries are working to achieve universal primary education, goal two of the Millennium Development Goals. The U.N.