Friday, September 21, 2007

Children Labor : A burden to Education

Children labor is a condition where a still immature child already has a job to do and gets payment to it. Children labor has many bad effects to the children. One of it is Children labor will disturb children's concentration in study.


Normally, the age when people begin to work is at 15. At that age, people are considered to be mature and responsible enough to control their time for working and studying. But, what will happen to underage people (children) that already have start working? Children don't have ability to control their time due to immaturity and lack of physical strength. If they have already working, they usually don't have enough time to study and their energy is washed-out. With this situation, their interest in study will be reduced greatly and results to a decrease of education achievement whereas education is very important to build their mental and character, to teach them about what's right and wrong, also to teach them to think critically about world. (Good points, but you need to support your views with more data, cases, experts or aothorities' views).


Some people say that children labor will benefit children as a valuable work experience and important for learning. This statement is true but it need to be considered that education is more important than work experience, especially for children, because education is needed for building character and working need too big responsibility for children to hold. Besides that, it is not too late to get work experience when the children have already grown up.


So, children labor must be prohibited to create an appropriate world for children to live. In that world, children can study as much as they want and will have a bright future with a great job that suitable to their age.

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