By Maji Yaw Htung
26 March 2012
“The Nobel laureate Amartya Sen has emphasized the enhanced
capabilities that education brings, and the resulting freedom that
development brings to individuals.” According to development perspective of globalization era,
development is about transforming the lives of people, not just
transforming economies. Policies for education or employment need to be
looked at through this double lens: how they promote growth and how they
affect individuals directly. Education as human capital: investment in
people yields a return, just as investment in machinery does. But
education does more. It opens up minds to the notion that is possible,
that there are other ways of organising production, as it teaches the
basic principles of modern science and element of analytic reasoning and
enhances the capacity to learn. In addition, United Nations Development
Programme (UNDP) measures the development with Human Development Index
(HDI) in which the measure incorporates three dimensions of development
in relation to human well-being; a long and healthy life, education and
knowledge and decent standard of living. Hence, education is
international and national booster for individuals in particular region
of the globe. The importance of education as universal truth is directly
linked to the Kachin nation of Myanmar (Burma).
