2. Origins
 Article 2 of the first
Protocol to the European
Convention on Human
Rights.

3.  Egyptians
 Phoenicians
 Greek

4. Literacy
 Percentage of illiterate
people around the world
has gone down to about
half of what it was in
1970.
 Illiteracy decreased by a
factor of 10 in 1970 and
by a factor of 20 in 2000.

5. Elementary Education
 Universal Primary
Education is one of the
eight Millennium
Development Goals.
 44% of the world's
population illiterate
 dropped to 32.5% by
1990
 by 1998 to 16%

6.  Study by the United
Nations Children's
Fund, published in 1998
predicted that the world
illiteracy rate would
increase in the 21st
century. because only a
quarter of the world's
children were in school
by the end of the 20th
century.

7. Solutions
 GDP: 5.7%
 Government Control:
good idea?

8.  Change the model!
 Just because it worked
once, it doesn’t mean it
will always work.

9. Bibliography
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