Biggest lesson

Education has been getting its due finally with the world understanding the underlying importance of quality education to lead a good life.More than 7.5 million children, adults, teachers and campaigners took part in the Global Campaign for Education's "World's Biggest Lesson." The world record for the largest simultaneous lesson in history has been broken already – and the numbers are still coming in. The World's Biggest Lesson focused on providing a quality basic education to everyone especially the 72 million children and 774 million adults who are currently missing out. All over the world politicians and ministers went back to school, were taught the lesson by children before being asked what they planned to do to make sure everyone gets a quality education.
The Global Campaign for Education is still collecting verification forms from around the world, but an early count shows that the World Record has been broken. The total attempting the record is at least seven and a half million people. The country with the highest recorded count is Bangladesh, with 2.5 million people taking part in over 25,000 different locations across the country. Millions also took part in lesson in Vietnam and in an impressive campaigning effort a million took part in the lesson in the Palestinian Territories. Celebrities, Heads of States, and Officials took part in the lesson across the world, with the highest profile being Colombian singer and Grammy award winner, Shakira. She sought international attention as Honourary Chair of Global Action Week, both on a media call with UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown and World Bank President Robert Zoellick, and as she lobbied Congress with students in Washington.
This helped garner more attention for the campaign emphasising the right of every child to go to school and to make education feasible and affordable to all.Primary education should be made mandatory to everyone.
Shakira who was also a part of the campaign along with Congressional leaders was impressed by the fact that there are so amny young children fighting for the rights of all other children to go to school.The most promising reason to believe that the world will achieve its goals of Education for All by 2015 has been the emergence of strong civil society movement and this mobilization of millions of children, women and men during the Global Action Weeks each year.Especially in women one in every four women are illiterate and this is an alarming issue which needs quick address.The Global Campaign for Education wants to put an end to this injustice and has been demanding so since 2000.
Every year civil society across the world takes part in this week that pressurizes all governments to keep their promises and meet the Education for All goals, which were signed up to by 164 governments in Dakar in April 2000. With the phenomenal success of the World’s Biggest Lesson in 2008  the biggest Action Week seems to be marching on the right part  in its campaign.
The Biggest Lesson Campaign for Education was  set by Global Campaign for Education at Johannesburg,South Africa on April 25,2008.