EDUCATION IN NEPAL :WHY ARE WE LAGGING BEHIND?
Education is a major tool that provides knowledge, skill, procedure, information and empowers people to know their rights and responsibilities towards their family, society and the nation. Education can be thought of as the transmission of the values and accumulated knowledge of a society. Education has now become very necessary for a person to live a healthy life and survive in the society. Education can encourage economic growth less directly, by increasing modernization, productivity, and human capital. And education also has a history of nurturing positive social change, by encouraging things like political participation, social equality, and environmental sustainability. Despite its rich and sensational culture, Nepal is the country with a very low literacy level. Only a little over 50% of the population of Nepal know how to read and write. Women in Nepal are less literate than men – only 42% percent of women are literate, whereas 68% of men can read and write. There are a...