Iran Facing Educational Crisis
Iran’s academic year begins at September 23rd each year.
Though Iran enjoys having geniuses such as late Maryam Mirzakhani, a math genius, the only women recipient of the Fields Medal, the most prestigious award in mathematics, Iran’s educational system has been in crisis for years.
In this short paper, I want to focus on the crisis that Iran’s educational system has been facing, plunging for worse in the past decades.
At the end of September, millions of students in Iran go back to school. But unfortunately, this year, many families were forced to send their children not to school, but to work, because they are not able to pay the costs of their children’s education and they cannot see ends meet.
In many cities and villages of Iran, though the children yearn to start a new academic year, they end up working at local brick kilns or weaving carpets to support their families.
The Iranian regime’s treacherous policies towards the educational system have created a real national crisis. Approximately ten million people in Iran are illiterate and another 15 million are functionally illiterate.
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