Rural Education and Health

John W. Mellor
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John W. Mellor: Cornell University

Chapter Chapter 10 in Agricultural Development and Economic Transformation, 2017, pp 123-133 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Increased rural employment and income derived from rapid agricultural growth create an improved context for school attendance and improved health. Education and health increase the response by small commercial farmers to productivity-increasing modernization. Rural education and health require constantly increasing public sector investment. They are as important to universal social objectives as to agricultural growth. All levels of education are essential to agricultural modernization. Primary education must be universal so everyone has the basic skills of literacy and numeracy. Secondary education must be achieved by a rapidly increasing portion of the population as modernization demands those skills and for selection to higher education. Higher education is essential for rapidly increasing qualified staff for public and private institutions.

Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-65259-7_10

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